Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 13 to 18
- Grade: 8 to 12
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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