Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke
Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George & Rue

George Elliott Clarke

Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George & Rue

George Elliott Clarke

44 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction poetry
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Execution Poems is a suite of poems about Clarke's cousins, George and Rufus Hamilton, who were hanged in July 1949 for the murder of a Fredericton, New Brunswick, taxi driver. In this startling work, Clarke reminds us of racism and poverty and of...

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