Magical Negro: poems
✍ Scribed by Parker, Morgan
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
**From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc e comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood.
"Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read--both as an account of a private life and as searing political protest." --TIME Magazine
A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, and more.
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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...
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