The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 VersosOn a lonely wharf, a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left hand pages the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained, the word shard. In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages. In their dialogues which take shape as a series of haunting prose poems the