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The Monster I Am Today - Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse (Paperback)
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The Monster I Am Today - Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse (Paperback)
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Leontyne Price remains one of the twentieth century's most revered
opera singers and, notably, the first African American to achieve
such international acclaim. In movements encompassing poetry and
prose, writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Price as an
icon, a diva, a woman, and a patriot-and himself as a fan, a
budding singer, and a gay man-through passages that move
polyphonically through the contested spaces of Black identity,
Black sound, Black sensibility, and Black history. Structured
operatically into overture, acts, and postlude, The Monster I Am
Today guides the reader through associative shifts from arias like
'weather events' and Price's forty-two-minute ovation to memories
of Simmonds's coming of age in New Orleans. As he melds lyric forms
with the biography of one of classical music's greatest virtuosos,
Simmonds composes a duet that spotlights Price's profound influence
on him as a person and an artist: 'That's how I hear: Her.'
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