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No Ruined Stone
No Ruined Stone | Shara McCallum
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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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The poems in this collection, told mainly in the voices of the poet Robert Burns and a fictional granddaughter, imagine what might have been if Burns had emigrated to Jamaica. A potent narrative about erasure, inheritance, race, and slavery. A number of the poems take the form of interleaving columns, which to me spoke to sometimes confusing, interrupted experience of being mixed race.

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