From the Marrow (PB) (2026)

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.