Imperial Liquor - Poems

Poems that represent "a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. [They] concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay"--Publisher marketing.

About the author

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.

Summary

"Johnson is crowd-pleaser, a hole-card-reader, a social critic, and consummate chronicler of the Rap Age."

Product details

• Authors: Amaud Johnson, Amaud Jamal Johnson, Amaud Jamaul Johnson
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780822966067
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6606-7
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 226 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern, Poetry, POETRY / American / African American