A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
in Poetry--a collection that examines the myth and history of the
prizefighter Jack Johnson
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was a true American
creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent
segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers--and white
America--to become the first African-American heavyweight world
champion. "The Big Smoke," Adrian Matejka's third work of poetry,
follows the fighter's journey from poverty to the most coveted
title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the
white women he brazenly loved. Matejka's book is part historic
reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson's complicated legacy,
one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.
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