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Suck on the Marrow Paperback – January 15, 2010

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**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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    88 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Red Hen Press
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    January 15, 2010
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    7 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1597094684
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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



Camille Dungy’s important new collection, Suck on the Marrow, explores the lives of African Americans in the 19th century, illuminating parts of slave and free black experience that are often overlooked. Plainspoken and unflinching, these poems enter the interior landscapes of the characters’ psyches to examine the nature of desire and longing and loss. With restraint and wry wit, Dungy shows us these things underscored by ownership and commodity. Foregrounding the stories of people for whom fewer records have been left, Suck on the Marrow offers us a fuller view of our collective American experience.

—Natasha Trethewey

About the Author

Camille T. Dungy is the author of Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), winner of the American Book Award and a Silver Medalist for the California Book Award; and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, Bread Loaf, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society. Dungy is Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. Editor of Black Nature: A Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2009), she is co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009) and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her poems have been published widely in anthologies and print and online journals. 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Hen Press; 1st edition (January 15, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 88 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1597094684
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1597094689
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade. Her debut essay collection is Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Her honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and a fellowship from the NEA. A professor at Colorado State University, Dungy lives with her family in northern Colorado.

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Allen B. Hagar-Terio Jr.
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Camille T. Dungy's book "Suck on the Marrow," is a fine introduction to the author's poetry. Insistent and rewarding, the book takes us through the stories of several nineteenth century personages in America. Rewarding might be the word, the book is enlightening as well as entertaining. Well done.

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This book is a courageous act of imagination - beautiful, disturbing, heartbreaking. To read it is to begin to understand, as much as a free person can, the horror of being enslaved. The individuals who live through the stories told in these poems are unforgettable. Dungy achieves all this in poetry that sacrifices none of its art to the demands of clear and powerful storytelling.
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