Description

Driftwood Press, paperback

Publication Date: June 28, 2022

Publisher Marketing: Melody S. Gee’s The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat meets at the intersection of cultural and spiritual identity, culminating in a set of harrowing poems that investigates how belief defines us.

“Melody Gees gorgeous poems offer both divine wounds and delicious consolations. At the intersections of the familial and the sacred, The Converts Heart is Good to Eat reminds us that what is created is also consumed. Beautiful, sensory, and aching, this collection reminds us that not all hungers are mortal ones.” Traci Brimhall, author of Our Lady of the Ruins

“Melody Gees The Converts Heart Is Good to Eat is a book of captivating intensity and precision. This compact collection reveals a talent and range that are rare in recent books of poems by American poets. Deeply evocative, Gees lyric meditations on motherhood, being a daughter, and on how one shapes a voice for an adult convert are as necessary as food and water for the living soul.” Eugene Gloria, author of Sightseer in this Killing City

“What happens when the call of spirit utterly changes a life? To be consoled begins with grief, Melody S. Gee writes, and I think about that prefix, con: how it means with in Latin; how Gees book is a chronicle of being with: with God, and with parents, children, and the old self, in the light of new faith. I thought too of the word concordto heart with another. How do I walk in concord? This is the primary question of Gee’s moving book.” Dana Levin, author of Now Do You Know Where You Are