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Magical negro : poems

Call Number

  • 811 P2423.1 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First U.S. edition.

Publication Information

Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.

Physical Description

95 pages ; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

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.

Genres

Poetry.

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