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The Marrow of Longing

by (author) Celeste Nazeli Snowber

illustrated by Marsha Nouritza Odabashian

Publisher
HARP Publishing The People's Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2021
Category
Recommended Age
13 to 18
Recommended Grade
8 to 12
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781990137068
    Publish Date
    Jul 2021
    List Price
    $24.95

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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