No Ruined Stone
by Shara McCallum
Publication Date: Aug 10, 2021
List Price: $18.95
Format: Paperback, 100 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781948579193
Imprint: Alice James Books
Publisher: Alice James Books
Parent Company: University of Maine at Farmington
Paperback 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?