Frankenstein Was A Negro is a lyrical psalm—it sings the blues and has the scat and soul of the Cotton Club. It’s a testament to the true working class—hands tattered and torn; eye squinting bright. Reminiscent of Baudelaire, the father of the prose poem, this collection mesmerizes and haunts, becoming terrifying to its own creator.

Charles Fort is a visiting professor in creative writing at Oklahoma State University. His books include The Town Clock Burning (Carnegie Mellon University Press), Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz: New and Selected Prose Poems(Backwaters Press), Darvil (St. Andrews Press), and Frankenstein Was A Negro (Logan House). Fort’s poems have appeared in journals, periodicals, and anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best American Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem International, The American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, and The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry. He has received a literary award from the Poetry Society of America, an Open Voice Award from The Writer’s Voice (judged by Grace Paley), the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize (judged by Fred Chappell), and The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award. A past MacDowell fellow, Fort is currently at work on a novel: The Last Black Hippie From Connecticut.

Frankenstein Was A Negro
Charles Fort
Paperback: 85 pages
Logan House (February 1, 2002)
ISBN-13: 978-0967412313