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Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and other Poems
Lasso the Wind is the first collection of children’s poetry by renowned poet and playwright George Elliott Clarke. By turns absurd, witty, playful, and profound, Clarke’s poems speak to the vivid wonder, the bright joys, and the secret pains of growing up in this world.
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Other publications from this author include:
- Portia White: A Portrait in Words (2019)
- These Are the Words (2018)
- Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections (2018)
- The Motorcyclist (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
- The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
- Gold (2016)
- Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
- Traverse (2014)
- Illicit Sonnets (2013)
- Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
- Red (2011)
- I & I (2009)
- Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
- Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
- Black (2006)
- Illuminated Verses (2005)
- George and Rue (2005)
- Quebecite (2003)
- Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002)
- Blue II (2001)
- Execution Poems : The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001)
- Blue (2001)
- Gold Indigoes (1999)
- Whylah Falls: A Play (1999)
- Beatrice Chancy (1999)
- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature (1997)
- Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems : 1978-1993 (1994)
- Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume Two (1992)
- Whylah Falls (1990)