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Suck on the Marrow

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by Camille T. Dungy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Camille T. DungyPublish date:2010-01-15Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:Red Hen PressISBN-13:9781597094689ISBN-10:1597094684UPC:9781597094689Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.10 x 7.30 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCMM2SGA8Y

**Winner of the American Book Award

**Silver Medalist for the California Book Award


Suck on the Marrow is a historical narrative, revolving around six main characters and set in mid-19th century Virginia and Philadelphia. The book traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, kidnapped Northern-born blacks, and free people of color, exploring the interdependence between plantation life and life in Northern and Southern American towns and illuminating the connections between the successes and difficulties of a wide range of Americans, free and slave, black and white, Northern and Southern. This neo-slave narrative treats the truths of lives touched by slavery with reverence but is not afraid to question the ways the old stories have too often been told. In addition to creating new stories, Suck on the Marrow develops new ways of telling those tales.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Red Hen PressISBN-13:9781597094689ISBN-10:1597094684UPC:9781597094689Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.10 x 7.30 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCMM2SGA8Y

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, Bread Loaf, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society. Dungy is Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. Editor of Black Nature: A Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2009), she is co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009) and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her poems have been published widely in anthologies and print and online journals.


Publisher: Red Hen Press

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