From the Marrow

By: Bridgforth, Sharon

From
the Marrow collects
nine ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, 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 in blues and bristling with the voices of
ancestors, lovers, neighbors, aunties, mermaids, and friends, these texts
document a thirty-year practice of deep listening, collaboration, and
care.

Shapeshifting,
polyvocal, multi-gendered, genre-bending, nonlinear, Bridgforth's writing
innovates form the way the ocean carves the coast: with sensuality, salty
humor, aching grief and rage, and with vast, various, and invariable
love. The volume, a historic gathering of Bridgforth's texts, is also a
gathering of longtime collaborators, with witnessings by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sonja Parks, Stacey Karen Robinson, Sonja Perryman, Omi Osun Joni L.
Jones, Nia Witherspoon, Stephanie L. Batiste, and Robbie McCauley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BS6G8FQW
• ISBN13: 9798986581415
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: 53rd State Press
• Length: 480 Pages