Song Of Thieves (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Shara McCallum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822958139 ISBN 13: 9780822958130

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003

Synopsis

Song of Thieves delves into issues of racial identity and politics, the immigrant experience, and the search for "home" and family histories. In this follow-up to her award-winning debut collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum artfully draws from the language and imagery of her Caribbean background to play a haunting and soulful tune.

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About the Author

From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US and UK. Her most recent, No Ruined Stone, won the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. La historia es un cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of her poems translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, was published in 2021 in Mexico. In addition to Spanish, McCallum’s poems have been translated into French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, and Dutch and set to music by composers Marta Gentilucci and Gity Razaz. Awards for her work include the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Jamaican government, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress, and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, among others. McCallum is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at Penn State University and a faculty member in the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program. From 2021-22, she served as the Penn State Laureate. She is a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow. WEBSITE: www.sharamccallum.com

From the Back Cover

"Opens a whole new world. . . . Brings magic and reality from the poet's eye and unveils her world through her unforgettable voice. Reading this book is testament to the sustaining fire of poetry." -Ray González

"Generous with grief and sweetness. . . . Simplicity isn't easy and honesty is harder, but McCallum's verse and voice are completely honest. These are poems you cannot turn down."-Carol Frost

"In these spare, sensuous, and lyrical poems, McCallum divines a human world forged both from fragility and strength. . . . She seeks to explore love and loss by navigating the bridge which joins the one to the other. . . . Expresses great tenderness, and conveys a hard-won wisdom, with grace and humility." -Maurya Simon

Song of Thieves delves into issues of racial identity and politics, the immigrant experience, and the search for "home" and family histories. In this follow-up to her award-winning debut collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum artfully draws from the language and imagery of her Caribbean background to play a haunting and soulful tune.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822958139
• ISBN 13: 9780822958130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80