{"title":"Remica Bingham-Risher","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"soul-culture-book-remica-bingham-risher-9780807015926","title":"Soul Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eExamines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, and Patricia Smith, to explore the impact of identity, joy, love, and history on the artistic process. Each essay is thematically inspired, centered on one of her interviews, and uses quotes drawn from her talks to showcase their philosophies. Each essay also delves into how her own life and work are influenced by these elders. Essays included are these-\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"blk\/wooomen revolution\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Girls Loving Beyonce and Their Names\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Terror of Being Destroyed\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Standing in the Shadows of Love\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Revision as Labyrinth\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Noting the frustrating tendency for Black artists to be pigeonholed into the confines of various frameworks and ideologies-Black studies, women's studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, and so on-Bingham-Risher reveals the multitudes contained within Black poets, both past and present. By capturing the radical love ethic of Blackness amid incessant fear, she has amassed not only a wealth of knowledge about contemporary Black poetry and poetry movements but also brings to life the historical record of Black poetry from the latter half of the 20th century to the early decades of the 21st.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examining cultural traditions, myths, and music from the Four Tops to Beyonce, Bingham-Risher reflects on the enduring gifts of art and community. If you've ever felt alone on your journey into the writing world, the words of these poets are for you.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743955001617,"sku":"NGR9780807015926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49757861871889,"sku":"CIN080701592XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50977187627281,"sku":"GOR014156344","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51836071837969,"sku":"CIN080701592XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080701592X.jpg?v=1751010857"},{"product_id":"room-swept-home-book-remica-bingham-risher-9780819500984","title":"Room Swept Home","description":"Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage.  Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us. In a strange twist of kismet, two of Bingham-Risher's ancestors intersect in Petersburg, Virginia, forty years before she herself is born: her paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with \"water on the brain\"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Marrying meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women's rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living?  [sample poem]  XI. the more ground covered, the more liberated you became  I am scared my mind will turn on me.  I am scared I will be naked in a burning  house. I am scared my children won't outpace me.  I am scared my children (who aren't made by me)  believe I am a sad imitation of the others.  I am scared I will gather in a room  where everyone will ask me to remember  and when I don't lie they'll say I'd hate to be you.  I've lived long enough to be scared my kidneys  will give out on me. I've lived long enough to know just  when they should. 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In a strange twist of kismet, two of Bingham-Risher's ancestors intersect in Petersburg, Virginia, forty years before she herself is born: her paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with \"water on the brain\"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Marrying meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women's rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living?   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