The Lost Songs of Nina Simone

Nina Simone’s ghost lives in these poems by award-winning author, Shonda Buchanan. Like the icon’s life and art, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone is complex, daring, sensuous, hard and soft all at once.

For the last 25 years, award-winning author Shonda Buchanan (Black Indian, Equipoise: Poems from Goddess Country, Who's Afraid of Black Indians?) has been on the hunt for Nina Simone and the impact of the icon's life, work and artistry on the world. This search has culminated in The Lost Songs of Nina Simone. The poems collected in the book are a case of inquiry into Simone's Civil Rights work, her personal and professional struggles and sacrifices, as well as the world's adoration, condemnation and worship.