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No Ruined Stone - by Shara McCallum (Paperback)

No Ruined Stone - by  Shara McCallum (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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? Historically-based poems explore an alternate past of Robert Burns and the troubling facts about Scottish slavery in Jamaica"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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?<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Blurbs forthcoming from Evie Shockley, Adrian Matejka, and Mervyn Morris.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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

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