Nicholas Goodly’s Book Notes music playlist for his poetry collection Star Power

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. The poems in Nicholas Goodly’s collection Star Power take many forms, but all are imbued with brilliant takes on life and art. LitHub wrote of the book: “Tumbling with a momentum that is equal parts fury and joy, these deep, often hilarious, and always interesting meditations on politics, gender, anger, and love argue, finally, that it’s our capacity for change, our passion for it, really, that will save us, if anything will.” In his own words, here is Nicholas Goodly’s Book Notes music playlist for his poetry collection Star Power: Baby I’m a Star – Prince Prince had a significant influence on my early life. He is a shared favorite among my family. His gender-bending sex machine persona made…