From the Marrow - by Sharon Bridgforth (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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, aunties, neighbors,
and friends, these texts document Bridgforth's 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 includes essays, interviews, and
witnessings by Stephanie L. Batiste, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Alexis Pauline
Gumbs, Robbie McCauley, Sonja Parks, Sonja Perryman, Stacey Karen Robinson, and
Nia Witherspoon.

About the Author

A 2023 United States Artists Fellow, 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon Bridgforth is 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 2022 of The Yale Review; Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature; Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought; and Feminist Studies Volume 48, Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon's bull-jean & dem/dey back and All These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth & Daniel Alexander Jones are published by 53rd State Press. AdeRisa Productions produced the 2023 bull-jean & dem/dey back L.A. Book Party Documentary directed 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.