{"product_id":"magical-negro-paperback-2","title":"Magical Negro - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMorgan Parker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/em\u003e 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 Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics--of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. In \u003cem\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/em\u003e, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present--timeless black melancholies and triumphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorgan Parker\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel \u003ci\u003eWho Put This Song On?\u003c\/i\u003e; and the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eOther People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker's debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a dynamic craftsperson\" of \"considerable consequence to American poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351592714489,"sku":"9781947793187","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/1-vEV2LSaa9781947793187_95a54967-1ad4-4557-b628-bda3c990c747.webp?v=1769800598","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/magical-negro-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}