Imperial Liquor : Poems
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Pitt Poetry Series
ISBN-10
0822966069
ISBN-13
9780822966067
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 25th, 2020
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
138 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.70 x 0.80 cms
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"Johnson is crowd-pleaser, a hole-card-reader, a social critic, and consummate chronicler of the Rap Age."
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.” Smokeythe most dangerous menin my neighborhoodonly listened to love songsto reach those notesa musicologist told mea man essentially cutshis own throat. some nightseven now, i’ll hear a falsettoand think i should run
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