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The lost songs of Nina Simone : poems / Shonda Buchanan.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.U2514 L67 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, Shonda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simone, Nina, 1933-2003.
- Simone, Nina.
- Simone, Nina, 1933-2003--Poetry.
- African American women--Poetry.
- African American women.
- Race relations--Poetry.
- Race relations.
- Racism--United States--Poetry.
- Racism.
- Civil rights--Poetry.
- Civil rights.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, California] : RIZE Press : Running Wild Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- ""Nina Simone's ghost lives in these poems by award-winning author, Shonda Buchanan. Like the icon's life and art, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone is complex, daring, sensuous, hard and soft all at once." Shonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible Nina Simone. With this book, Buchanan is declaring this The Century of the Black Woman, providing a realistic glimpse into not only Simone's life, but the lives of Black women in America, past and present, and their choices in a myopic, unforgiving country. A grandchild of enslaved Africans, American Indians and Irish migrants, born into poverty as Eunice Waymon in a traditionally large family, Nina Simone lived a life few Black American women lived during the Jim Crow era in the South, yet rose to ultimately impact the world with her creative genius and determined spirit. This book is both an emotional and historical excavation of an artist's life, capturing the rise and descent of that life, including Simone's family history, her childhood and young womanhood, as well as the addiction, mental health struggles and abuse. The Lost Songs of Nina Simone embodies the rich legacy --- the pleats between the cloth --- of Simone's artistry, beauty, self-immolation and rage."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- The origin stories
- forging things
- Eunice
- Becoming Nina
- The Andy years (1961-1971)
- The lost songs of Nina Simone.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781960018984
- 1960018981
- OCLC:
- 1499626997
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