Imperial Liquor
Finalist, 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist, 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 betrayalwhat’s more American? This book tracks echoes, rides the residue of music “after the love is gone.”
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Finalist, 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 betrayalwhat’s more American? This book tracks echoes, rides the residue of music “after the love is gone.”
Imperial Liquor
Finalist, 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist, 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 betrayalwhat’s more American? This book tracks echoes, rides the residue of music “after the love is gone.”
Finalist, 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 betrayalwhat’s more American? This book tracks echoes, rides the residue of music “after the love is gone.”
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780822966067 |
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Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Publication date: | 02/25/2020 |
Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 70 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d) |
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