In an intimate conversation with the "High Priestess of Soul," Monica A. Hand surveys the places and moods of alienation through poems that are as musical and stylistically diverse as Nina Simone's work. Hand readily embraces a "mass hypnosis" style, putting "a spell on [us]" with her intensely passionate cries and commitment to embracing both tragedy and exuberance in these insightful poems.
From "Dear Nina":
I am not recession
depression
oppression
compression
crooked line
broken line
polka dot
parking lot
or spot
I am a Gift from God
I know that
I am an
un-kept
solo song
Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist currently living in Harlem, New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Aunt Chloe, Black Renaissance Noire, The Sow's Ear, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Frontier, African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew Universityand is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.
In an intimate conversation with the "High Priestess of Soul," Monica A. Hand surveys the places and moods of alienation through poems that are as musical and stylistically diverse as Nina Simone's work. Hand readily embraces a "mass hypnosis" style, putting "a spell on [us]" with her intensely passionate cries and commitment to embracing both tragedy and exuberance in these insightful poems.
From "Dear Nina":
I am not recession
depression
oppression
compression
crooked line
broken line
polka dot
parking lot
or spot
I am a Gift from God
I know that
I am an
un-kept
solo song
Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist currently living in Harlem, New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Aunt Chloe, Black Renaissance Noire, The Sow's Ear, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Frontier, African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew Universityand is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.
me and Nina
96me and Nina
96Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781882295906 |
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Publisher: | Alice James Books |
Publication date: | 02/14/2012 |
Pages: | 96 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d) |