![]() Though the poems are eloquently written, they still frighten and haunt. Readers join the Temple members-see, smell, hear, taste, and touch them-from the moment they arrive in Guyana until that fateful day that they leave. ![]() “Marrow gives flesh and bone to the ghosts of Jones’s People, and puts the real and imagined story in this history. scott’s book of poetry is a landmark in the literature of Jonestown.”-Rebecca Moore, author of Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple and professor emerita of religious studies at San Diego State University ![]() By humanizing the members of Peoples Temple, she reminds us of all that was lost on a single day in November 1978. scott uses diaries, photographs, letters, and tapes, along with her own prodigious imagination, to create stories, and worlds, that transcend the gory headlines. “The amazing poems of darlene anita scott capture the essence of those who lived and died in Jonestown. ![]()
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