{"product_id":"9781947793187","title":"Magical Negro","description":"\u003cb\u003eA National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read―both as an account of a private life and as searing political protest.” ―\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of 2019 at \u003ci\u003eTIME, Elle,\u003c\/i\u003e BuzzFeed, \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, AVClub, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at \u003ci\u003eVogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, NYLON, \u003c\/i\u003eBuzzFeed, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the breakout author of \u003ci\u003eThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\u003c\/i\u003e comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Parker, Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":68264548368596,"sku":"9781947793187","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8d631788-ab47-43be-9b43-df70648d717f.jpg?v=1793648291","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781947793187","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}