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Imperial Liquor: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Amaud Jamaul JohnsonSeries:Pitt PoetryPublish date:2020-02-25Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822966067ISBN-10:822966069UPC:9780822966067Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.90 x 5.80 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJ8JV8RNV
Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980s, Johnson examines the limitations of romance to heal broken relationships or rebuild a broken city. Slow Jams, red-lit rooms, cheap liquor, like seduction and betrayal--what's more American? This book tracks echoes, rides the residue of music "after the love is gone." Smokey the most dangerous men in my neighborhood only listened to love songs to reach those notes a musicologist told me a man essentially cuts his own throat. some nights even now, i'll hear a falsetto and think i should run
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822966067ISBN-10:822966069UPC:9780822966067Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.90 x 5.80 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJ8JV8RNV
A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Dorset Prize, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Cave Canem. Born and raised in Compton, California, he is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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