Cultural Front: The Big Smoke & the Anisfield-Wolf Award

Cultural Front: The Big Smoke & the Anisfield-Wolf Award: [ The Big Smoke reading group ]    Earlier in the year, Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke was honored as an Anisfield-Wolf Award recipie... The wordplay that is being used in the poems from beginning to end is very notable because Matejka wrote the poems in the language of Jack Johnson's time. Matejka mentions the inequality, discrimination, racism, and "naming or typing of Jack Johnson", which makes this book stand out and intriguing.