Imperial liquor / Amaud Jamaul Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Amaud Jamaul, 1972- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Spoken word poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 pages)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Smokey

LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83

What Spells Trouble

Crips & Bloods

Delfonic

Somebody told me we got LA

Tar Baby

Prince George's County

Line of Reason

Picturing My Father Running Anywhere (& For What?)

The Authority

How often I've turned to Latasha Harlins, who would have been 43 this July

Jailbird Blues

No More Birminghams

Midnight Special

The Snooty Fox

As in ... Afro-Pessimism?

Dog Star Rising

Place Your Bets

Grief

On Becoming River Rat, Fat-Tongued and/or Finding Your Once Pretty Body at the Park, Full of Holes

Eye Witness

Other Women's Children

Don't Forget You(r) Lunch

Poem in which I Attempt to Explain to my Sons

What Was Ocean

The Whipping

The Wall

The Curiosities

Like a Natural Man

Worry the Rosemary

"Young Hearts, Run Free" ('76)

When Miss Lucy Sings

Black Dragons

This Bitter Earth

Nothing But a Man

Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister

Fred Williamson Stars as "The Hammer"

Gator Purify

Pacman

Another Epitaph for Nino

The Human Tornado

Raising Hell

Waiting

Priest and the Revolution

DeBarge

Mystery Woman Speaks 30 Years Later

Doo-Wop

Black Diaspora

Strawberry

Other Acts of Terror

The Midsection

If not as in a Wilderness, then

Women Named Barbara

Between Work

Estrella @ Noon

Affirmative Action Babies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"Poems"--cover.

ISBN:

9780822987291

0822987295