The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse

by Kevin Simmonds

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810143747
• ISBN13: 9780810143746
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"