Sounded ID: 9781662176685
ISBN: 9781662176685
Publication Date: January 06, 2021
Publisher: Author's Republic
Language: English
Author Name: Kimberly A. Collins
Narrator Name: Kimberly A. Collins
Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulte her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffes in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place. These poems, which reimagine their lives, are a microcosim of the lived experiences of African American women who face...
Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulte her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffes in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place. These poems, which reimagine their lives, are a microcosim of the lived experiences of African American women who face violence, limitations and challenges, Their voices and bodies are resurrected to articulate their ideas of worth to claim a space to speak not only for themselves but also for their sisters who are voiceless. Their lives become three songs which are analogous to the sections in Wright's novel: Fear, Flight and Fate. While Bessie Mears supplies the soundtrack to Bigger's story, it is Bessie Smith's blues sung by Colie Aziza which serve as the soundtrack for Bessie's Resurrection. This collection of poems, written for all three Bessie's, honors Black women as the necessary backbone to the fight against their voices and their bodies being buried alive.
# | Title | Duration |
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1. | LANDR-Title -Balanced-Medium |
0 mins 21 secs |
2. | 1.Bessie's Gospel |
4 mins 30 secs |
3. | 2.Elisheba (1) |
1 mins 09 secs |
4. | 3.Bessie's Lost Song |
0 mins 33 secs |
5. | 4.3 Bessie Bop |
2 mins 23 secs |
6. | 5.A Long Blues Note |
1 mins 08 secs |
7. | 6.A Burning Lesson |
0 mins 50 secs |
8. | 7.Washer Woman |
0 mins 46 secs |
9. | 8.UPSOUTH |
0 mins 51 secs |
10. | 9.Bessie' Cry |
1 mins 06 secs |
11. | 10.Waiting On Bigger |
0 mins 58 secs |
12. | 11.SHE Song |
1 mins 08 secs |
13. | 12.Bessie's Good Day |
2 mins 10 secs |
14. | 13.Bigger Brick |
1 mins 15 secs |
15. | 14.Front Page News |
1 mins 53 secs |
16. | 15.Dancing Shadows |
1 mins 14 secs |
17. | 16.For The Marys |
0 mins 28 secs |
18. | 17.Bigger's Plea To Beassie Mears |
1 mins 18 secs |
19. | 18.Bessie's (Almoet) Rescue |
2 mins 15 secs |
20. | 19.Hereafter |
1 mins 25 secs |
21. | 20.Bessie's Drink |
1 mins 18 secs |
22. | 21.Bessie Who |
1 mins 14 secs |
23. | 22.Bench Bop |
1 mins 50 secs |
24. | 23.Baaaaybe |
1 mins 54 secs |
25. | 24.Dick Dumb |
1 mins 26 secs |
26. | 25.They Said All She Need Is Some Dick |
2 mins 27 secs |
27. | 26.Bessie's Resurrection |
1 mins 59 secs |
28. | 27.Rock Island Train |
1 mins 42 secs |
29. | 28.Bessie To Bessie |
2 mins 55 secs |
30. | 29.Passport To Freedom |
0 mins 41 secs |
31. | 30.Cockpit |
0 mins 23 secs |
32. | 31.Juneteenth, 1925 |
0 mins 42 secs |
33. | 32.You Ask Why I Fly |
1 mins 12 secs |
34. | 33.Queen Bess |
2 mins 32 secs |
35. | 34.Bessie Answers The Woman Question |
0 mins 51 secs |
36. | 35.The Truth About Flying |
0 mins 47 secs |
37. | 36.Paris Blues |
0 mins 36 secs |
38. | 37.Forget-Me-Nots |
1 mins 13 secs |
39. | 38.Bessie's Men |
1 mins 06 secs |
40. | 39.Flying African |
1 mins 08 secs |
41. | 40.What About Bessie |
0 mins 59 secs |
42. | 41.Was Not Built To Break |
1 mins 56 secs |
43. | 42.Native Daughter |
1 mins 22 secs |
44. | 43.Blues Manifesto |
0 mins 47 secs |
45. | 44.Bessie BE (A Praise Song) |
0 mins 40 secs |
46. | 45.Bessie's Woman |
0 mins 57 secs |
47. | 46.Pieces Of A Dream |
0 mins 55 secs |
48. | 47.S.B on B.S (1) |
1 mins 43 secs |
49. | 48.Hand Me Down Mean |
1 mins 31 secs |
50. | 49.Bessie's Every Woman's Blues |
1 mins 14 secs |
51. | 50. A Golden Shovel- They Call Me Empress |
1 mins 38 secs |
52. | 51. Bessie's Last Song |
1 mins 07 secs |
53. | 52.Bessie's Final Moan |
0 mins 17 secs |
54. | 53.Why Bessie |
5 mins 29 secs |
55. | -Title -Balanced-Medium |
0 mins 18 secs |
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