#michaelwarr

Michael Warr has four books of poetry. "The Armageddon of Funk," his second book, received the 2012 Poetry Honor Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), which described the collection as “A poetic soundtrack to black life.”

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 Jehovah’s Witnesses; the Marxist theories and free love of revolutionaries; the promise of bourgeois life by bank executives; an Ethiopian soldier brandishing a bayonet in his face; interrogation under Haile Selassie’s Jubilee Palace; and hallucinating of “cornbread islands” at Chicago’s “Velvet Lounge.” Warr’s poetry, like his life, is full of interruptions and circularity that captures the broad sweep of the times. 

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