Ebook {Epub PDF} Maafa by Harmony Holiday

HARMONY HOLIDAY, AUTHOR OF MAAFA. A self immortalized in phantoms is at once gone and everywhere. This work chases that kind of selfless, misplaced, displaced, replaced, implacable self back into the world. I am trying to forgive/ I am learning about flight, that self admits, and the poems here teach us how to do both at once and survive it.  · Harmony Holiday is a poet and performer based in Los Angeles, USA. Her books include Reparations () and A Jazz Funeral for Uncle .  · New poetry books by Harmony Holiday, Christina Xiong, and Lily Trotta, reviewed by Clara B. Jones. “When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” —Adrienne Rich. In Maafa (Fence Books, ), Harmony Holiday crafts a surrealistic tale employing iconography and symbolism from the African and.

In Swahili, Maafa means "catastrophe or holocaust." Maafa explores the erasure of trauma and Black feminity that existed within Harmony Holiday, author of Negro League Baseball, Go Find Your. Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, and archivist. She's the author of Maafa (Fence Books, ) A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom (Birds, LLC, ); Hollywood Forever (Fence Books, ); Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet Editions, ); Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, ); and The Black Saint and the Sinnerman, an LP composed of sound and speech that assimilates Charles. Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of five collections of poetry including Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, ); Hollywood Forever (Fence Books, ); and Maafa (Fence Books, ). The recipient of the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a NYFA fellowship, among others, she curates an archive of griot poetics and a related.

Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of five collections of poetry including the forthcoming Maafa (Spring ). She also curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In Maafa (Fence Books, ), Harmony Holiday crafts a surrealistic tale employing iconography and symbolism from the African and African-American experience, creating a utopian, feminist allegory based, apparently, on the myth of Ulysses. A dancer, writer, archivist, and educator, the author attempts an “interpenetration” of writing and dance and, based upon pre-publication poems and promotions that I found on the internet, Holiday’s Surrealist influences are, particularly, evident in. 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 www.doorway.ru 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.