Mrs. Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz (Darvil Trilogy) - Softcover

Fort, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935218905 ISBN 13: 9781935218906

Publisher: THE BACKWATERS PRESS, 2013

Synopsis

"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

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Fort's books include We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012), MRS. BELLADONNA'S SUPPER CLUB WALTZ (The Backwaters Press, 2013), and The Town Clock Burning (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Classic Contemporary Series). Fort's poems have appeared in such journals, periodicals, and anthologies as The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best American Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem International, and The American Poetry Review. He is the founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of the Arts. A past MacDowell fellow, Fort is currently at work on a novel: The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: THE BACKWATERS PRESS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1935218905
• ISBN 13: 9781935218906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94