BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: THE MARROW OF LONGING

AVAILABLE NOW AT HARP PUBLISHING

Celeste Snowber’s deeply personal and interpersonal third book of poetry, traces the inherited trauma of the Armenian genocide, lessons learned in kitchen conversations, fragmented memories of grandparents, parents’ love letters, prayers in the night, and bodily yearnings. “Fragments can hold a world,” she says. A descendent of genocide survivors, she explores relationships between longing, belonging, and identity, uncovering universal themes that guide readers to what has shaped their own lives.

In excavating her own vulnerabilities and longings she invites the reader into a community of reflection. “look beneath the surface / how many dimensions/ one object, one heart holds.”

Motherhood is a recurring theme: “My mother had an / eggplant soul / a beauty of both / dark and light / rough and tender…the meeting of art and life / just beneath the skin of plum black.” Celeste speaks to her ancestral homeland as living…