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What We Ask Of Flesh

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Through biblical re-tellings, narratives, and lyric poems, this young African-American poet examines and heals wounds of flesh and spirit.
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"What We Ask of Flesh, like the flesh itself, is full of honey and fire. It's impossible not to feel called by these poems, summoned by their rich sound and vatic voice."—Amy Gerstler

Blending biblical characters into a deeply personal history, What We Ask of Flesh tells of women through time, their spirits borne through broken flesh, through wombs and memories. The body becomes instrument as words explore the mystical connection between what was and is.

Women are burdened
with consequence

hard-bought footprints
leading from each father's house

Remica Bingham currently teaches at Norfolk State University.


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Price: $14.00
Pages: 96
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Publication Date: 19 February 2013
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780983934622
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POETRY / American / African American & Black, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Religious, POETRY / Women Authors
"[What We Ask of Flesh] is a tour de force and a story where nothing—no regret or rationalization can stanch the reality of what can happen to us, made of flesh. This is a surging book…"
— Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books
Remica L. Bingham, a native of Phoenix Arizona,is an alumna of Old Dominion University, Bennington College, and is a Cave Canem fellow. Her first book, Conversion (Lotus Press, 2007), won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She resides with her husband and children in Norfolk, VA, where she currently serves as the Writing Competency Coordinator at Norfolk State University. For more information on her work and upcoming events please visit www.remicalbingham.com.
Contents

I.
The Body Speaks

II.
Things I Carried Coming Into the World
Maieusiophobia
What We Ask of Flesh
Nicole, Age 7
Kuperberg, South Side Street Photo

III.
All the Wild Swarm
Something divine let go
House of the Ten Plagues
Will and Testament
How I Crossed Over


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