{"product_id":"hand-monica-a-me-and-ninpb","title":"Hand, Monica: Me and Nina","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice James Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 14, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Monica A. Hand's \u003cem\u003eme and Nina\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Elizabeth Alexander\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eme and Nina\u003c\/em\u003e Monica A. Hand depicts, as Nina Simone did, what it is to be gifted and Black in America. She shifts dynamically through voices and forms homemade, received and re-imagined to conjure the music (and Muses) of art and experience. This is a debut fiercely illuminated by declaration and song.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Terrance Hayes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Monica A. Hand sings us a crushed velvet requiem of Nina Simone. She plumbs Nina's mysterious bluesline while recounting the scars of her own overcoming. Hand joins the chorus of shouters like Patricia Smith and Wanda Coleman in this searchlight of a book, bearing her voice like a torch for all we've gained and lost in the heat of good song.\"\u003cbr\u003e―Tyehimba Jess\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817260331031,"sku":"9781882295906","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/718eti1m9sL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774474457","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/hand-monica-a-me-and-ninpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}