Darktown Follies

by Amaud Jamaul 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797399
• ISBN13: 9781936797394
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"