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"Almost unbearably painful and poignant, Amaud Jamal Johnson's remarkable new book Darktown Follies walks the difficult line between historical record and lyric insight, embodying the legacy and power of The Minstrel Show. Johnson's poems figure minstrelsy not as cultural anomaly nor artifact, but as a method of 'othering' the dumb show of contemporary racial relations. One thinks of Paul Lawrence Dunbar's Mask, and equally Etheridge Knight's Shine. Johnson's minstrels are shifty and shifting, both objects and shapers of an outside gaze -- the smile indicts; the smile implicates. In Johnson's deft hands and acute ear, the overt address reflects and refracts the brutal amalgam and fragmentary pluralism, the assonance and dissonance that are the collective American experience. For what these poems reveal in us and about us, for what they project as us, and for their riveting beauty, we are awed at the tragedy and comedy of our histories and identities. We are at the mercy of The Show." -- James Hoch --Advance Praise
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