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A myth in which a black female epic hero who is the African holocaust personified has killed her father and been granted eternal life.
A propos de l'auteur
Harmony Holiday is the author of
Negro League Baseball (winner of the Motherwell Prize),
Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues, and most recently
Hollywood Forever. She is the founder of Mythscience, an arts collective devoted to cross-disciplinary work that helps artists re-engage with their bodies and the physical world, and the Afrosonics archive of jazz and every day diaspora poetics. She worked on
SOS , the selected poems of Amiri Baraka, transcribing all of his poetry recorded with jazz that had yet to be released in print and exists mostly on out-of-print records. Harmony studied rhetoric and at UC Berkeley and taught for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. She received her MFA from Columbia University and has been awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a NYFA fellowship. She is currently working on a biography of jazz singer Abbey Lincoln.
