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Kevin Simmonds
Kevin Simmonds

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·Jul 20, 2021

I Love Leontyne Price, and This Book Is Dedicated To Her

In “The Monster I am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse,” Author Kevin Simmonds pens an ode of poetry and prose to the operatic grand dame. — “What struck me most was her fleeting comment about ‘the monster that I am today.’” I first saw her in a 1984 United Negro College Fund commercial. Instead of Black educational promise portrayed through the familiar visuals of a young Black actor and his respectable, hard-working parents―reliably fortified by the…

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I Love Leontyne Price, and This Book Is Dedicated To Her
I Love Leontyne Price, and This Book Is Dedicated To Her
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Kevin Simmonds

Kevin Simmonds

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San Francisco-based writer originally from New Orleans. kevinsimmonds.com

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