The Marrow of Longing
- Publisher
- HARP Publishing The People's Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2021
- Category
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990137068
- Publish Date
- Jul 2021
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 13 to 18
- Grade: 8 to 12
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Contributor Notes
Excerpt: The Marrow of Longing (by (author) Celeste Nazeli Snowber; illustrated by Marsha Nouritza Odabashian)
Fragments
To piece my heritage shards of genocide
a thousand stained glass pieces of wounds and wombs shimmer and illuminate.
My mom told me about her dad Mesrop He told her, knowledge is an invisible gold bracelet on your
wrist.
My task:
to listen to fragmentia live my life
in the poetics of parts.
I want to wear fragments as bracelets let the invisible
adorn me.
Editorial Reviews
Celeste Snowber’s The Marrow of Longing is a liminal site where land, food, bodysoul, the domestic,
and the wild intermesh. These poems celebrate the succulent riches of Armenian cuisine in a
tradition where food-making and artmaking are one, the kitchen a studio holding an eggplant’s “plum black” richness.
Readers are invited to open hearts and minds to the intergenerational traumas of the Armenian genocide of 1915
while stepping into a world where an Armenian mother’s sweeping of floors sweeps us into an ever-
present, enduring love.
Susan McCaslin, Author of Into the Open: Poems New & Selected