artists’ slides and administrative papers
searching vision of contemporary life
excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time
als de poëzie van Van Strijtem
geen van alle beschouwt ze als haar moedertaal
Magical Negro Little Dead Rabbit artists’ slides and administrative papersMorgan 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