Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum, born in 1972 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a distinguished poet and educator. She is a professor at Pennsylvania State University and has received numerous awards for her work, which often explores themes of identity, history, and memory. McCallum's poetic voice is celebrated for its lyricism and depth, making her a prominent figure in contemporary American and Caribbean literature.
Personal Name: Shara McCallum
Birth: 1972
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“[In This Strange Land] McCallum crafts a world filled with marvelous ideas about the everyday reality of urban Jamaica, a world of contrasts in which romance and protest make strange bedfellows, where ‘‘beauty and violence lie down together.’”
—Review: Literature of Arts of the Americas, Issue 86, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2013, 160-161
“McCallum’s new poems mark a terrific quantum leap in maturity, complexity, and depth. [This Strange Land] appears to be a determined fusion of past and present, of general and personal history, towards a collective memory that would encompass us all.”
—Michela A. Calderaro
“This Strange Land poignantly and appropriately begins with ‘Psalm for Kingston,’ a poem that calls out to a violent city and its resilient inhabitants. The voices of Kingston . . . are brought up and left to fade into the fabric of the verse . . . It is a fitting way to introduce a book that is in search of what feels almost lost and yet ever-present.”
—Thom Dawkins, Weave Magazine