its sprawling poems build towards an expansive world celebrating fluidity while casting a critical lens on state power
searching vision of contemporary life
Each poem is accompanied by an exacting
excoriating new collection by a poet whose unfolding works are among the groundbreaking literature of our time
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Magical Negro Little Dead Rabbit its sprawling poems build towardsMorgan 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