Up Jump the Boogie

by John Murillo

Overview

Poetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. "Up jumps the boogie. That's almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn't have a favorite poet for this year: Now I do. But with this kind of verve and intelligence and ferocity Murillo just might be a favorite for many years to come."—Junot Díaz

"The feel of now lives in John Murillo's UP JUMP THE BOOGIE, but it's tempered by bows to the tradition of soulful music and oral poetry. The lived dimensions embodied in this collection say that here's an earned street knowledge and a measured intellectual inquiry that dare to live side by side, in one unique voice. The pages of UP JUMP THE BOOGIE breathe and sing; the tributes and cultural nods are heartfelt, and in these honest poems no one gets off the hook."—Yusef Komunyakaa

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945588662
Publisher:	Four Way Books
Publication date:	03/02/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	577,902
File size:	743 KB

About the Author

John Murillo is also the author of the poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie, (originally from Cypher and NOW reissued from Four Way Books) finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, two Larry Neal writers awards, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Cave Canem Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Best American Poetry 2017 and 2019. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low-residency MFA program
at Sierra Nevada College.

Table of Contents

I Ode to the Crossfader 3

Practicing Fade-Aways 5

The Corner 9

Hustle 11

At the Metro 13

Santayana, the Muralist 14

Sherman Ave. Love Poem 16

Enter the Dragon 17

1989 19

Renegades of Funk 21

II Up jump the Boogie, or George Clinton Counsels the Creative Writing Student 29

The Poet Laureate 30

Monster Boy 32

Variation On a Theme By Eazy E 33

November 26, 1980 35

Dream Fragment With a Shot Clock and Whistles In It 38

How To Split a Cold One 41

Sin Vergüenza 44

Trouble Man 47

III Flowers for Etheridge 53

IV Míralo 71

The Prisoner's Wife 73

Stolen Starlight Lounge Sutra 74

Soon I'll Be Loving You Again 77

Round Midnight 79

For the Good Times 81

The Juju 82

Second Line 83

Song 85

Notes 88

Acknowledgements 90