Poetry. African American Studies. "MRS. BELLADONNA'S SUPPER CLUB
WALTZ contains work that is a rarity in American literature: a
trilogy of prose poems. Charles Fort explores the Other through the
use of an elaborate persona. 'Darvil, ' he notes, is a 'composite
of devil and evil, ' but he gives him a noble lineage: 'direct
descendent of Leo Africanus.' In deconstructing the great patchwork
quilt that is American culture, Fort undermines any notion of the
Other while understanding all too well the reality of it. His poems
are jazzy riffs through Fourth of July bombast, Native American
lore, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and the detritus of a post-war
materialism. And his comedy is Swiftian; he is most brutally funny
when he is angriest."--Donald Soucy"Charles Fort rises above the
regional and the racial to where true freedom resides--in the core
of the imagination."--ET Malone, Jr.Fort's two previous books in
the trilogy appeared in 1993 and 2001: Darvil, and Frankenstein Was
A Negro. One can hear the webbed footsteps of Darvil on the streets
of Paris close behind the broken walking sticks thrown down by
Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Verlaine. The Darvil Nightmares may end.
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