| Mrs. Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz Contributor(s): Fort, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1935218905 ISBN-13: 9781935218906 Publisher: Backwaters Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Series: Darvil Trilogy |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 6" W x 9" (0.33 lbs) 94 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charles Fort, as though the hellhound were on his trail as it was on his spectacular work's chief spiritual presence, Robert Johnson, will take you on a hard ride here. Robert Johnson was perhaps the supreme eminence in that profoundest formal contribution to American poetry, the blues; and yet Fort's choice of a breathless, even a rampaging prose-poem manner at once pays homage to his great mentor and encompasses a huge swath of history -- social, political, religious, familial, neighborly, generational. The reader may first imagine these poems as surreal, but in fact they are super-real: Charles Fort has found an utterly precise and moving idiom for things large and small, ones that would -- before Mrs. Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz -- have seemed beyond expression. He is matchless. -- Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate |
Contributor Bio(s): Fort, Charles: - Charles Fort's books include We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012), MRS. BELLADONNA'S SUPPER CLUB WALTZ (The Backwaters Press, 2013), and The Town Clock Burning (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Classic Contemporary Series). Fort's poems have appeared in such journals, periodicals, and anthologies as The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best American Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem International, and The American Poetry Review. He is the founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of the Arts. A past MacDowell fellow, Fort is currently at work on a novel: The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut. |