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

Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of "George and Rue"

George Elliott Clarke

44 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction poetry
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Gaspereau Press' best-selling title, Execution Poems, is George Elliott Clarke's complex lament for his late cousins, George and Rue – two Black men who were hanged for the murder of a taxi driver. After the overwhelming interest generated by the ...

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