Imperial Liquor: Poems by Johnson, Amaud

Imperial Liquor: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822966067)

Vendor: Amaud Jamaul Johnson
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Format: Paperback
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Imperial Liquor: Poems by Johnson, Amaud

Imperial Liquor: Poems

$18.00
Imperial Liquor: Poems by Johnson, Amaud

Imperial Liquor: Poems

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Amaud Jamaul Johnson
ISBN-10: 0822966069
ISBN-13: 9780822966067
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.30d

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Booklist 03/01/2020 pg. 8
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
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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.

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