It stresses the kinetic, indeterminate, and even contradictory forces of mobility that creativity constantly navigates (or that constantly navigates creativity). To Verse: Dionne Brand’s Energetic Ars Poetica by Klara du Plessis Subtitled Ars Poetica, Dionne Brand’s eminently generative progression of poetry, The Blue Clerk, meditates on the process of writing. Dear readers, you will carry this on past us. We didn’t even get to Coltrane (I will have to get to this soon). We didn’t even get to how this book marks Brand’s literary legacy so far (perhaps that was assumed). Below you’ll find their initial takes, and the start of a discussion that flows from them as if from headwaters. I asked Klara du Plessis, Linzey Corridon, and Alexei Perry Cox to take an angle, or perspective, on Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk. Ask three others to do it, then get them to talk. If the book’s a dialogue, then capture it in dialogue How to describe a book in discussion with itself, written in collaboration between the poet and herself? How, if that book is part-memoir, part-history, part-music, part-aesthetic treaty, part-ethical investigation, and more, all set on an imaginary plane that is gut-check real? Well, don’t do it yourself.
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