| Magical Negro Contributor(s): Parker, Morgan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947793187 ISBN-13: 9781947793187 Publisher: Tin House Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2019 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2018041653 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" L (0.36 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Death/Dying - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018 Booklist 02/01/2019 pg. 20 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. 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. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parker, Morgan: - Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House, the Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, the New York Times, and the Nation. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. |
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