Book
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- ALMA POWELL: Adult Stacks
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Magical negro : poems
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
Physical Description
95 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
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 Black Americans. -- adapted from front flap
Contents
- Let us now praise famous magical negroes
- Field negro field notes
- Popular negro punchlines.