Mary Said What She Said
By (Author) Darryl Pinckney
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
29th October 2024
23rd May 2024
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Paperback
48
Width 135mm, Height 216mm
Memory, open my heart. Let the past part my lips. The stars never lie. But how we misread them, bright drop after bright drop in the sea of night.
Based on the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Said What She Said is the testimony of Mary Stuart as she awaits martyrdom, accused of involvement in the most notorious plots of the time. On the eve of her execution, after nineteen years in captivity, she tells of her passions and torments.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of two novels, High Cotton and Black Deutschland; three works of non-fiction, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy and Busted in New York and Other Essays; and a memoir, Come Back in September.