I & I
Overview
Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award
Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry
In the "Boogie Nights" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back -- meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way. I & I smoulders with love, lust, violence, and the excruciating repercussions of racism, sexism, and disgust. Rastafarian for "you and me," "I & I" expresses the oneness of God and man, the oneness of two people or the distinction between body and spirit.
In George Elliott Clarke's hands, this existential aesthetic crystallizes in a love story of Gothic grit. The narrative gives this verse novel shape; the poetry makes it sing, straddling folk ballad, soul, and pop music, all the while moaning the blues.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780864925138
- ISBN-10: 0864925131
- Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
- Publish Date: January 2009
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 238
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