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No Ruined Stone

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Imprint: Alice James Books (Aug 10, 2021)
Poetry, Paperback, 100 pages
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 9781948579193

Description of No Ruined Stone

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?

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