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George Elliott Clarke

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January 01, 1960 in Windsor Plans, Nova Scotia, Canada

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A seventh-generation Nova Scotian, George Elliott Clarke was born in 1960 in Windsor Plans, Nova Scotia. He is known as a poet, as well as for his two-volume anthology of Black Writing from Nova Scotia, Fire in the Water. Volume One contains spirituals, poety sermons, and accounts from 1789 to the mid-twentieth century; Volume Two collects the work of the Black Cultural Renaissance in Nova Scotia, which, in Clarke's words, "speaks to people everywhere about overcoming hardships and liberating the spirit." Currently on faculty at Duke University, he is now writing both a play and an opera on slavery in Nova Scotia, a reformulation of Shelley's The Cenci. He has won many awards including the 1981 Prize for Adult Poetry from the Writers Federa...more

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Average rating: 3.90 · 230 ratings · 45 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Whylah Falls 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of "George and Rue" 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	George & Rue 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Blue 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Black 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Beatrice Chancy 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke by George Elliott Clarke (Afterword), Jon Paul Fiorentino (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	I & I 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Whylah Falls: A Play 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Quebecite by George Elliott Clarke, D.D. Jackson 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating: