Magical negro : poems /

Parker presents an archive of black everydayness; a catalog of contemporary folk heroes. Her poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration. She connects themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification while exploring the troubling tropes and stereotypes of Blac...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Parker, Morgan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	African American women > Poetry. American poetry > 21st century. POETRY / American / African American. POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss. POETRY / Women Authors. American poetry. African American women. 2000-2099 Poetry.