No Ruined Stone
Shara McCallum
(Author)
Description
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?Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
Alice James Books
Publish Date
August 10, 2021
Pages
100
Dimensions
5.98 X 8.98 X 2.13 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781948579193
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About the Author
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 a professor of English at Penn State University and on the faculty of the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program
Reviews
Blurbs forthcoming from Evie Shockley, Adrian Matejka, and Mervyn Morris.
