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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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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No Ruined Stone

No Ruined Stone

by Shara McCallum
No Ruined Stone

No Ruined Stone

by Shara McCallum

Overview

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

ISBN-13: 9781948579193
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication date: 08/10/2021
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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 Universityand on the faculty of the Pacific UniversityLow-Residency MFA Program

Table of Contents

No Ruined Stone 1

Primer 2

Dramatis Personae

The Bard

Ae Fond Kiss 9

Voyage 10

Another Life 11

Landscape 12

Dear Gilbert 13

River Ayr 14

The Hour Of Dream 15

Dear Gilbert 16

For Promised Joy 17

Bard 18

Douglas's Reply 19

Dear Gilbert 21

Tarn O' Shanter 22

Augur 23

Crumbo-Jingle 24

Fate 25

Rising 26

Springbank 27

Genealogy

Tutu Gbcvi

Isabella

Memory 33

The Bard, Edinburgh, 1825 34

Story, The First 35

Springbank 36

Woman in an Edinburgh Drawing Room 37

Husband 38

Passing 39

Chance 41

Husband 42

Ae Fond Kiss 43

Husband, The Truth Is 44

Inheritance 45

In the field 47

To a Mouse 48

At the Hour of Duppy and Dream, Miss Nancy Speaks 49

Holyrood, 1826 50

The Choice 51

Voyage 53

The Prophet and God's Complaint 55

No Ruined Stone 56

Author's Note 59

Timeline 63

Acknowledgments 67

Bibliography 71

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