Contents

Acknowledgements

1 The Trouble of Intimacy / Rinaldo Walcott

2 On Austin Clarke’s Style / Paul Barrett

3 Dear Austin: Why Teaching Your Work Is Difficult / Leslie Sanders

4 “There Were No Elders. Only Old Men”: Aging and Misogyny in Austin Clarke’s Later Fiction / Camille Isaacs

5 That Man, That Man—Stories and Confabulations / Austin Clarke

6 Burrowing Into the Craft: Editing Austin Clarke / Dennis Lee

7 Editorial Notes for “When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks” / Dennis Lee

8 Sometimes, A Motherless Child: A Double Take / Giovanna Riccio

9 “These Virtues o’ the Cullinerry Harts”: Talking Food and Politics in the Letters of Austin Clarke, Sam Selvon, and Andrew Salkey / Kris Singh

10 Let Me Stand Up / Austin Clarke

11 Austin A.C. Clarke Is the Most / Kate Siklosi

12 The Rogue in Me / Austin Clarke

13 Spatiality in the Poetry of Austin A.C. Clarke / Stephen Cain

14 The Lessons of Austin Clarke / Sonnet L’Abbé

15 “The Wordshop of the Kitchen”: Impressions of Austin Clarke and Paule Marshall / Asha Varadharajan

16 Of Kin and Kind / Marquita Smith

17 The Robber / Austin Clarke

18 Austin Clarke: Defying the Silence, a Life in Letters / John Harewood

19 Austin Clarke Love Poem / Cyril Dabydeen

20 Do Not Let Them Choose the Fragrance / Austin Clarke

21 There Will Never Be Another Austin Clarke / Patrick Crean

22 Still the British Empire / André Forget

23 I Can Say I Read It / E. Martin Nolan

24 Austin Clarke’s Books / Katherine McKittrick

25 Hyphen (for Austin “Tom” Clarke, 1934–2016) / John R. Lee

26 “Myth Grounded in Truth”: Sound, Light, and the Vertical Imagination in Austin Clarke’s ’Membering / Winfried Siemerling

27 À St. Matthias / George Elliott Clarke

28 Clarke on Clarke / George Elliott Clarke & Paul Barrett

29 All He Wanted to Do Was Type / Michael A. Bucknor

30 Recognition / David Chariandy

Works Cited

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