Me and Nina

Hand, Monica A.

Hand, Monica A. / Me and Nina
Genre: books4me > Poetry
Format: Book - Paperback
Released: Tue 14 Feb 2012
Catalogue Number: 0009718372

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"Monica Hand's me and Nina is a beautiful book by a soul survivor. In these poems she sings deep songs of violated intimacy and the hard work of repair. The poems are unsentimental, blood-red, and positively true, note for note, like the singing of Nina Simone herself. Hand has written a moving, deeply satisfying, and unforgettable book." Elizabeth Alexander 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 University and is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.

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  • Publisher: CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DIST
  • Subject Development: African American
  • Geographic Designator: United States
  • Academic Level: General Adult
  • Depth (m): 0.006
  • Dewey: 811/.6
  • Height (m): 0.203
  • Pages: 78
  • Place Of Publication: United States
  • Published Date: Tue 14 Feb 2012
  • Weight (g): 159
  • Width (m): 0.152

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