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    Traverse
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    Traverse

    By George Elliott Clarke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781550964554
    Traverse
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    George Elliott Clarke

    George Elliott Clarke’s books include George & Rue, winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Execution Poems, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry; and Whylah Falls, winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry and chosen for CBC’s inaugural Canada Reads competition. In 2008, he was appointed to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer. He was recently the Poet Laureate of Toronto, from 2012 to 2015, and currently teaches at the University of Toronto.

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      Book preview

      Traverse - George Elliott Clarke

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      TRAVERSE

      GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Clarke, George Elliott, 1960-, author

      Traverse / George Elliott Clarke.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-395-3 (pbk.)— ISBN 978-1-55096-396-0 (pdf)

      ISBN 978-1-55096-455-4 (epub)—ISBN 978-1-55096-454-7 (mobi)

      I. Title.

      PS8555.L3748T73 2014 C811'.54 C2014-900184-3 / C2014-900185-1

      Copyright © George Elliott Clarke, 2014.

      Cover painting Africadian Pastorale / front inside painting Africadian Eve / end painting African Baptist Muse © Laura Anne Martina, 2014; used by permission of the artist. Interior flower painting Sudden Instant © William Lloyd Clarke, 1953; used by permission of George Elliott Clarke.

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

      144483 Southgate Road 14 – GD, Holstein ON N0G 2A0 Canada.

      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2014. All rights reserved.

      Digital formatting by Michael Callaghan

      ePUB and MOBI versions by Melissa Campos Mendivil

      We gratefully acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF), the Ontario Arts Council–an agency of the Ontario Government, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation for their support toward our publishing activities.

      Exile Editions eBooks are for personal use of the original buyer only. You may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of this eBook, in whole or in part, without the expressed written consent of the publisher; to do so is an infringement of the copyright and other intellectual property laws. Any inquiries regarding publication rights, translation rights, or film rights – or if you consider this version to be a pirated copy – please contact us via e-mail at: info@exileeditions.com

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      Geraldine Elizabeth Clarke

      (1939 –

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