Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Imperial Liquor (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist, 2020 National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, 2021 Rilke PrizeImperial 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822987291
• Artikelnr.: 72254874

Autorenporträt

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.