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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Portia White
    sub title: a portrait in words
  name:
    name part: Clarke, George Elliott
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Martina, Lara
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: pages cm
  abstract: "I take Liberties--poetic--and take License to relate her story In her voice, to tell History Who she was--as I hear her say Or sing. [...] But still you will come face-to-face With a "Portia," whose life outshines All brilliance this black ink divines.... In his unique brand of spoken word, Africadian poetry, the incomparable George Elliott Clarke explores a personal subject: his great-aunt Portia White. The result is a stirring, epic poem vibrating with energy and music that spans White's birth in 1911, a coming of age amidst the backdrop of two World Wars, and her life-long love affair with music--from singing in to directing the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church choir to her bel canto tutlege at the Halifax Conservatory of Music to her final, command performance before Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1964. Portia White is a stunning testament to the first African Canadian to become an international star. Features vibrant illustrations by contemporary artist Lara Martina."--
  note: poetry by George Elliott Clarke ; art by Lara Martina.
  note: A poem.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: White, Portia
      name part: 1911-1968
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    name:
      name part: White, Portia
      name part: 1911-1968
  classification: 811/.54
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Portia White
    name:
      name part: Clarke, George Elliott.
    origin info:
      publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia : Nimbus Publishing, 2019
    identifier: (OCoLC)1110105056
  identifier: 9781771086974
  identifier: 1771086971
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 190724
    record change date: 20250318223700.8
    record identifier: in00004137810
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng