Magical Negro Works & Days kus me met je kussen

kus me met je kussen de kussen van je mond je adem uitgegoten

Poems beget poems

and excerpts from her in-progress novel Sugar Wars

by no means autobiographical

Thirty-three poems

Magical Negro Works & Days kus me met je kussenMorgan 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