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Friday, August 31, 2018

"No Ruined Stone" by Shara McCallum

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August 31, 2018
 

No Ruined Stone

 
Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum reads "No Ruined Stone."

About This Poem

 

"This poem is part of a manuscript that bears the same title, No Ruined Stone, and is an alternate account of history, based on the life of eighteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. The real Burns very nearly migrated to Jamaica to work as a bookkeeper on a slave plantation. In the poems, I follow what happens to the fictional Burns I create, who does go to Jamaica, and to one of his imagined descendants, a mixed-race woman born into slavery and who comes of age as emancipation is happening in the British West Indies."
—Shara McCallum

 

Shara McCallum is the author of five poetry collections, including her most recent, Madwoman (Alice James Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. McCallum is a liberal arts professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and lives in Pennsylvania.

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