Holiday curates poems-as-text and image-as-impression, lyricism and
activism. The legacies of Miles Davis and MLK and Billie Holiday and
other icons collide, harnessing taboos they upheld triumphantly. Layers
of a story coalesce in restricted space producing ghettos, or a
mythological advertising omniverse wherein shadow and light integrate,
complicating our fantasies.
The New Mythology Begins to Love me
With an immediacy that seems at once artless and profoundly
sophisticated. You know how Billie Holiday sounds vague and precise like
an unmarked grave that might your father's but he had another name for
his disappearance, he called it love eventfully shattered with enough of
it
I heard black people don't get depressed, besides as luxury, and the
bible says. What's popular now is the way the miracle of pure style
cures or is it curses, crosses our heart, hopes to hide of what it don't
get while new angels sing hexes into bottles of northern comfort.
Uproar. Jesus, already these myths are obsolete too and fresh the cold
details he was bleeding his twisted love into. He was bleeding his
twisted love. He was bleeding his twisted love. He was bleeding his
twisted love.
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday was
educated at the University of California, Berkeley and at Columbia
University. Her debut collection of poems, Negro League Baseball
(2011), won the Motherwell Prize. Go Find your Father/A Famous Blues,
a dos-a-dos book featuring poetry, letters and essays, came out in late
2013. Holiday lives in Los Angeles.
