The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

by Dionne Brand

Book Overview

On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages--the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained, the word-shard. In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages. In their dialogues--which take shape as a series of haunting prose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478000201
• ISBN13: 9781478000204
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"