The Armageddon of funk / Michael Warr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warr, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) -- 21st century.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Tía Chucha Press ; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Northwestern University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Using "poetic memoir," the author navigates through the apolitical, rigid morality of the Jehovah's Witnesses; the revolutionary theories and free love of Black Panthers and Marxists; the promise of a bourgeois future from bank executives; a screaming soldier brandishing an AK-47 in his face, a blizzard of white termite wings; an interrogation under Haile Selassie's Jubilee Palace; hallucinating of "of cornbread islands" at Chicago's "Velvet Lounge," and many "Street Signs, Convolutions, and other California Coincidences" as one poem is titled.

Contents:

Jehovah, Panthers, pimps, and gumbo

Termites, Stalin mau-mau, Timbuktu

Gwendolyn, Velvet Lounge, mensch

Ouija boards, chocolat, magnolias.

Notes:

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Best Poetry, Honor, 2012

Published in San Fernando, CA.

ISBN:

9781882688425

1882688422

OCLC:

724662903