From the Marrow
Will be published approx. on 6. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
500 pages
979-8-9899461-6-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the Marrow collects nine ritual/jazz performance texts by SharonBridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers,blood pudding, con flama, love conjure/blues, delta dandi,River See, and dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show. Rooted inblues and bristling with the voices of ancestors, lovers, aunties, neighbors,and friends, these texts document Bridgforth's thirty-year practice of deeplistening, collaboration, and care. Shapeshifting, polyvocal, multi-gendered,genre-bending, nonlinear, Bridgforth's writing innovates form the way the oceancarves the coast: with sensuality, salty humor, aching grief and rage, and withvast, various, and invariable love. The volume includes essays, interviews, andwitnessings by Stephanie L. Batiste, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Alexis PaulineGumbs, Robbie McCauley, Sonja Parks, Sonja Perryman, Stacey Karen Robinson, andNia Witherspoon.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 139 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-9899461-6-7 (9798989946167)
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A 2023 United States Artists Fellow, 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama,Sharon Bridgforthis 2020-2023 Playwrights' Center Core Member, a 2022-2024 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. A Doris Duke Performing Artist she has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her work is featured in:Volume 110, No. 4, Winter 2022ofThe Yale Review;Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature;Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought; andFeminist StudiesVolume 48, Number 1, honoring 40 years ofThis Bridge Called My BackandBut Some of Us Are Brave!Sharon'sbull-jean & dem/dey backandAll These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth & Daniel Alexander Jonesare published by53rd State Press. AdeRisa Productions produced the 2023bull-jean & dem/dey backL.A. Book Party Documentarydirected by Adelina Anthony. Sharon is an Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) in Minneapolis, MN. PHT produced mainstage productions of Sharon's work in 2022 & 2023.