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Language:EnglishPublisher:Tin HouseISBN-13:9781947793187ISBN-10:1947793187UPC:9781947793187Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, LossSize:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCCSX3NEQ1
Magical Negro
Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tin HouseISBN-13:9781947793187ISBN-10:1947793187UPC:9781947793187Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, LossSize:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCCSX3NEQ1
Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker's debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature...
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