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Tin House Books Magical Negro
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Little, Brown Book Group Other Peoples Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic''s Circle Award''Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music'' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the WaterOther People''s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets - is now in print for the first time in the UK, featuring a new introduction from Danez Smith.The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she''s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the ''high'' and the ''low''. Other People''s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduTrade ReviewHer poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor and black-hearted vision. Parker is one of this generation's best minds, able to hold herself and her world, which includes all of us, up to impossible lights, revealing every last bit of our hopes, failings, possibilities and raptures -- Danez Smith * T Magazine *Honesty, says one of Morgan Parker's speakers, "is uncomfortable and funny." And how apt, how acrobatic and unflinching Parker is in bearing this thesis out . . . These poems are delightful in their playful ability to rake through our contemporary moment in search of all manner of riches, just as they are devastating in their ability to remind us of what we look like when nobody's watching, and of what the many things we don't - or can't - say add up to. OTHER PEOPLE'S COMFORT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT is hilarious and hard-hitting, and it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music -- Tracy K. SmithThis collection further evidences Morgan Parker's considerable consequence in American poetry. * The New York Times *Fierce, playful and political, Parker's poems celebrate the everyday just as they face off ancestral hurt. . . . Meets prejudice with an unwavering eye. * Guardian *Parker's voice is surprising, ranging from elegiac to conspiratorial to ecstatic; she interrogates both blackness and femininity like ports in a long personal journey, as places to land but also as points of departure. * Vogue *Parker is a poetic superstar * Publishers Weekly *
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Tin House Books Other Peoples Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night
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Little, Brown Book Group Who Put This Song On
Book Synopsis''Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh out loud funny and heartbreakingly honest'' Elizabeth Acevedo, bestselling author of The Poet X''Morgan Parker put this song on - and I hope it never turns off'' Nic Stone, bestselling author of Dear MartinWHEN THE WORLD SAYS FIT IN, ASK WHYTrapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she''s in therapy. She can''t count the number of times she''s been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her weird outfits, and been told she''s not really black. Also, she''s spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there''s that, too.Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat - and it''s telling them how to feel, who to vote for, what to believe. Morgan wonders, when can she turn this song off and begin living for herself?Life may be a never-ending hamster wheel of agony, but Morgan fiTrade Review2019 justly belongs to Morgan Parker . . . [she] is one of this generation's best minds -- Danez Smith * New York Times *Lauded poet Parker makes a triumphant first impression in the YA space with this lyrical semi-autobiographical story of a 17-year-old black girl struggling with depression while living in small-town suburbia * EW *Lovely, honest, wrenching and funny - a tribute to music, survival and the power of finding beautiful moments of "temporary escape" * New York Times *Nothing short of triumphant * NYLON *Morgan Parker's poetry is vital, in both senses of the word. Her most recent collection, There Are Things More Beautiful Than Beyoncé, was an absolute knockout * Literary Hub *
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Tin House Books There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
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Random House USA Inc Who Put This Song On
Book SynopsisUnflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest. —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and The Poet X, comes poet Morgan Parker''s pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored.Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she''s in therapy. She can''t count the number of times she''s been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her weird outfits, and been told she''s not really black. Also, she''s spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there''s that, too.Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat--and it''s tell
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Random House Publishing Group You Get What You Pay For
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Little, Brown Book Group Magical Negro
Book SynopsisFrom the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood.''2019 justly belongs to Morgan Parker. Her poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor and black-hearted vision. Parker is one of this generation''s best minds'' Danez Smith, winner of the Forward Prize ''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'' TIME MagazineMagical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms and customs. These poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacemTrade ReviewParker's poetry is a sledgehammer covered in silk, exposing black women's vulnerability and power and underscoring what it means to be magical and in pain. - BuzzfeedMagical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can't stop thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped in pop culture and the here-and-now of actual life while also being refracted through the darkest lens of American history. To read it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over, of Parker's extraordinary lyric gifts.This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star.If you're anxious for your snug perspective to be rattled and ripped asunder, for the predictable landscape you stroll to become all but unrecognizable, for things you thought you knew to slap you into another consciousness - brethren, have I got the book for you. Bey's bestie continues her reign with this restless, fierce, and insanely inventive way of walking through the world. Once again, children - ignore Ms. Parker at your peril.
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Little, Brown Book Group There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
Book SynopsisOne of Oprah Magazine''s Ten Best Books of 2017A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017Publishers Weekly''s Ten Best Poetry Collections of SpringA Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed, NYLON and BustleOne of i-D''s emerging female authors to read in 2017 ''Outstanding collection of poems. So much soul. So much intelligence in how Parker folds in cultural references and the experiences of black womanhood. Every poem will get its hooks into you. And of course, the poems about Beyoncé are the greatest because Beyoncé is our queen.'' Roxane Gay ''I can and have read Morgan Parker''s poems over and over . . . She writes history and pleasure and kitsch and abstraction, then vanishes like a god in about 13 inches.'' Eileen Myles''Morgan Parker has a mind like wildfire and these pages are lit. I can''t recall being this enthralled, entertained, a
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