ISBN-13: 9781882688425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 80 str.
Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as contrary as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites. Via poetic memoir we join his navigation through the apolitical, rigid morality of the Jehovah s Witnesses; the revolutionary theories and free love of Black Panthers and Marxists; the promise of a bourgeois future from bank executives; a screaming soldier brandishing an AK-47 in his face, a blizzard of white termite wings; an interrogation under Haile Selassie s Jubilee Palace; hallucinating of of cornbread islands at Chicago s Velvet Lounge, and many Street Signs, Convolutions, and other California Coincidences as one poem is titled in this second collection. Warr s poetry, like his life, is full of interruptions and circularity that captures the broad sweep of the times and microscopic idiosyncrasies of the moment."