Conversion
$18.00
Remica L. Bingham
Winner of the 2007 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
“With this book, Remica Bingham joins the list of poets we have hoped for. She sees with a brave eye and hears the music of all our languages, validating each. Her story is the human story; her sharing it is an act of great generosity.”
— Lucille Clifton
“One has the feeling reading Remica Bingham’s book that one in encountering a poet committed to making a career of this business. Her assured voice makes us imagine that she came to poetry fully formed and singing lustily such that it belies the achievement of this first book of risky, spiritual poems that can only enrich the poetic landscape. As we celebrate this new book, it is hard not to anticipate the riches to come from her pen. A most welcome debut.”
— Kwame Dawes
“The many voices Remica Bingham created so gracefully and so artfully are utterly convincing, moving and life enhancing. She has the gift, and Convention is one of the most readable — and remarkable— first books of poetry I’ve come across in years.”
— Ed Ochester
“In Conversion, Remica Bingham charts a path that begins in the dailyness of our lives — our loves and losses — crosses the territory of human kindness and cruelty, and ends in a kind of salvation. These poems hover at the intersection of memory and history… in a voice both tender and humane.”
— Natasha Trethewey
