No Ruined Stone - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781948579193ISBN-10:1948579197UPC:9781948579193Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Caribbean & Latin American, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC4V81WM2A
No Ruined Stone
No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781948579193ISBN-10:1948579197UPC:9781948579193Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Caribbean & Latin American, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC4V81WM2A
From Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, her most recent being No Ruined Stone, a speculative account of Scottish poet Robert Burns' planned migration to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation. Her previous book, Madwoman, received the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. McCallum is...
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