02650cam a2200409 i 4500 609483443 TxAuBib 20230109120000.0 220510s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022017380 9780807015926 HRD 27.95 080701592X HRD 27.95 TxAuBib rda Bingham-Risher, Remica, author. Soul culture [BOOK] : black poets, books, and questions that grew me up / Remica Bingham-Risher. Boston : Beacon Press, [2022] xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index. Imagining Home -- On Faith -- Intimate Tending -- Courting Paradise -- blk/wooomen revolution -- Girls Loving Beyoncae and Their Names -- Who Raised You? -- The Terror of Being Destroyed -- Standing in the Shadows of Love -- Revision as Labyrinth -- ComeThrough. 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. 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. Provided by publisher. 20230109. Bingham-Risher, Remica. Bingham-Risher, Remica. Books and reading. American poetry African American authors History and criticism. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. American poetry 21st century History and criticism. African American poets Interviews. African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. African Americans Intellectual life 21st century. Interviews. Essays. Literary criticism. Autobiographies.