Pay in 4 interest-free payments of $3.75 Learn more
Ships within 48 hours · Estimated delivery Aug 14 - Aug 19
always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’
iemand zoekt een brandtrap uit deze dag
overflowing and flowering
Jamaican speech
where everything is lost and yet ‘nothing goes away’
Magical Negro 3 Summers always asking how we mightMorgan Parker 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
