The Blue Clerk
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and bales of paper that hold a poet’s accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained, the word-shard.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.
Dionne Brand is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist.
Other publications from this author include:
- An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020)
- Theory (2018)
- Love Enough (2014)
- Ossuaries (2010)
- Inventory (2006)
- What We All Long For (2005)
- Thirsty (2002)
- A Map of the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001)
- At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999)
- Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics (1998)
- Land to Light On (1997)
- In Another Place, Not Here (1996)
- We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History (1994)
- No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s (1991)
- No Language Is Neutral (1990)
- Sans Souci, and Other Stories (1988)
- Rivers have sources, trees have roots: Speaking of racism (1986)
- Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984)
- Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defence of Claudia (1983)
- Primitive Offensive (1982)
- Fore Day Morning: Poems (1978)