
Amaud Jamaul Johnson + Neat Glass of The Macallan Fine Whisky
The Poet Salon
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The Book of Illusions
I think of your book Imperial Licker, what I'm calling it, the book of illusions. And as illusions, you know, as a reference, as an illusion, as in like a false or falseness. In some poems, like featuring Lynette Miquilla, sister, we're giving enough information to kind of research the illusion and kind of do a surface level dive. But in a poem like Black Dragon, we're having to do a bigger dive and bigger research into like, okay, who are these characters? What are they doing?
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