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ISBN-10: 1597094684
ISBN-13: 9781597094689
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Publish Date: 01/15/2010
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 7.30" W, 0.30" H

Suck on the Marrow

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Price: $18.95

Overview

**Winner of the American Book Award

**Silver Medalist for the California Book Award

Suck on the Marrow is a historical narrative, revolving around six main characters and set in mid-19th century Virginia and Philadelphia. The book traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, kidnapped Northern-born blacks, and free people of color, exploring the interdependence between plantation life and life in Northern and Southern American towns and illuminating the connections between the successes and difficulties of a wide range of Americans, free and slave, black and white, Northern and Southern. This neo-slave narrative treats the truths of lives touched by slavery with reverence but is not afraid to question the ways the old stories have too often been told. In addition to creating new stories, Suck on the Marrow develops new ways of telling those tales.

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Camille Dungy's Suck on the Marrow exhumes a troublesome history through imagery and focuses us in the modern psyche. The metaphors are so apt and concrete that we not only witness and experience slavery within an artful frame, but also with all the nerve endings exposed. This collection embraces the act of imagining acutely, whereby imagination becomes almost an action. In fact, Suck on the Marrow plots a path back to the Southern soil, to common people, back to a double-binding pathos of pain and beauty through language.

–Yusef Komunyakaa

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Details

ISBN-10: 1597094684
ISBN-13: 9781597094689
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Publish Date: 01/15/2010
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 7.30" W, 0.30" H
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