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Negro League Baseball

Harmony Holiday

From Negro League Baseball:

Mother and Father and other frank nouns flow between freedoms in this stream of conscious dispersal. Rather than say they are musical say: They are music.
I mean we say we mean it
because it feels nice to mean
anything-- it feels childlike a newborn
lost in a beautiful cave on the way to
behavior--It feels and fields and home
and safe only saved, like a packet of foreign sugar
back pocket cafe good nigger swagger--wait.

Harmony Holiday was born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1982. Her father was Northern Soul singer Jimmy Holiday. She is an MFA student at Columbia University.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fence Books
  • Publish Date: Aug 2nd, 2011
  • Pages: 86
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.00in - 8.00in - 0.70in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9781934200421
  • Categories: American - African American & Black

About the Author

Harmony Holiday was born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1982. Her father was Northern Soul singer and songwriter Jimmy Holiday; her mother, 30 years his junior, was studying writing at the University of Iowa at the time they met. Upon her father's passing in 1987 Harmony moved to Los Angeles, where she spent most of her childhood studying dance before attending UC Berkeley. She currently lives in New York City, and is an MFA student at Columbia University and an instructor of dance and writing courses.