From the Marrow Vol. 1collects five ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, includinglovve/rituals & rage,no mo blues,dyke/warrior-prayers,blood pudding, andcon flama. Rooted in blues and bristling with the voices of ancestors, lovers, aunties, neighbors, and friends, these texts document the first decade of Bridgforth's thirty-year practice, including the founding of The root wy'mn Theatre Company. Shapeshifting, polyvocal, multi-gendered, genre-bending, nonlinear, Bridgforth's writing innovates form the way the ocean carves the coast: with sensuality, salty humor, aching grief and rage, and with vast, various, and invariable love. This volume-the first of two-includes essays, interviews, and witnessings by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sonja Parks, Stacey Karen Robinson, Sonja Perryman, and Robbie McCauley.