Imperial liquor : poems / Amaud Jamaul Johnson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Smokey -- LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83 -- What Spells Trouble -- Crips and Bloods -- Delfonic -- Somebody told me we got LA -- Tar Baby -- Prince George's County -- Line of Reason -- Picturing My Father Running Anywhere (and 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 -- Black Dragons -- 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 -- Acknowledgments

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