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Imperial Liquor: Poems
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Series: Pitt Poetry
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ISBN10: 0822966069
ISBN13: 9780822966067
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Feb 25 2020
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780822966067
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Feb 25 2020
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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
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
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