![]() ![]() ![]() But each poem is written with her signature wry humor and caustic honesty. Bold and edgy, the writing spotlights the strength and tenacity that enable the speaker to survive grief and inequity. It also gives voice to her disappointments and delights as she claims-and proclaims-agency over her body and her life.įrom dating white boys to imagining what Diana Ross was thinking in that famous photo where she licks her fingers after eating a pair of ribs, Parker’s second poetry collection runs the gamut. Morgan Parker continues to fearlessly explore what it means to be a black woman in the United States today. This collection further evidences Morgan Parker’s considerable consequence in American poetry. Parker is one of this generation’s best minds, able to hold herself and her world, which includes all of us, up to impossible lights, revealing every last bit of our hopes, failings, possibilities and raptures. Her poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor and black-hearted vision. 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.Ģ019 justly belongs to Morgan Parker. Morgan Parker’s latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness. ![]() In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present-timeless black melancholies and triumphs. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics-of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. THE MAGIC CIRCLE POETRY BOOK COVER ARCHIVEMagical 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. 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 MagazineĪ Best Book of 2019 at TIME, Elle, BuzzFeed, the Star Tribune, AVClub, and more.Ī Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, and more. “Morgan Parker’s latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness. A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner!įrom the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. ![]()
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