{"product_id":"no-ruined-stone-9781948579193","title":"No Ruined Stone","description":"No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a \"mulatta\" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US \u0026amp; UK, her most recent being No Ruined Stone, a speculative account of Scottish poet Robert Burns' planned migration to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation. Her previous book, Madwoman, received the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. McCallum is a professor of English at Penn State University and on the faculty of the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519941939474,"sku":"9781948579193","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dcc08d7-dd3b-463f-8b43-0c25e44858dc.jpg?v=1731072101","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-ruined-stone-9781948579193","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}