Darktown Follies by Amaud Johnson
Darktown Follies, Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s daring and surprising new collection of poems, responds to Black Vaudeville, specifically the personal and professional challenges African American variety performers faced in the early twentieth century. Johnson is fascinated by jokes that aren’t funny — particularly, what it means when humor fails or reveals something unintended about our national character. Darktown Follies is an act of self-sabotage, a poet’s willful attempt at recklessness, abandoning the “good sense” God gave him, as an effort to explore the boundaries and intersections of race and humor.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781936797394 |
| ISBN 10 | 1936797399 |
| Title | Darktown Follies |
| Author | Amaud Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Tupelo Press, Incorporated |
| Year published | 2013-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 70 |
| Prizes | Winner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2014, Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Poetry) 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |