Magical Negro 3 Summers always asking how we might

always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’

Evincing the power of translation as a poetic device to navigate historical and linguistic borders

iemand zoekt een brandtrap uit deze dag

and in some cases trained the creatures described in this collection

Magical Negro 3 Summers always asking how we mightMorgan 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