David Naimon
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Good morning and welcome to Between the Covers.
I'm David Naiman, your host.
Today's guest is poet, essayist, and soon-to-be novelist Morgan Parker.
Parker is the author of the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night from Switchback Books.
which was selected by Eileen Miles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award and the Poetry Collection There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce from Tin House Books, picked by Oprah and Time Magazine as one of the best books of 2017, a book that inspired Casey Lehman to say that there is no more daring artist or anyone he'd rather read in the 21st century than Morgan Parker.
Parker received her bachelor's degree in anthropology and a creative writing degree from Columbia University and her MFA in poetry from NYU.
Her poetry and essays have been published and anthologized in The Paris Review, The Breakbeat Poets, New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, The New York Times, and The Nation.
Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and is a Cave Canem graduate fellow.
She's also the host of Reparations Live, co-curates the Poets with Attitude reading series with Tommy Pico, and with Angel Nafis, she is the other Black Girl Collective.
Morgan Parker returns to Between the Covers to talk about her third poetry collection, Magical Negro, from Tin House Books.
Danez Smith says 2019 justly belongs to Morgan Parker.
Her poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor, and black-hearted vision.
Diego Baez at Booklist calls Magical Negro a profound meditation on the history and future of Black liberation, a searing indictment, an irreverent lampoon, and a desperately urgent work of poetry.
And Patricia Smith says, 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 bae's bestie continues her reign with this restless fierce and insanely inventive way of walking through the world once again children ignore miss parker at your peril welcome back to between the covers morgan parker
So you've talked in many interviews about how Magical Negro is different than your previous two collections, that it was the hardest book you've written, the most serious, the most urgent.
And you've mentioned the comment of friend Jason P. Smith after he read some of the poems in it.
When he said, oh, you don't care about being charming
So let's start with a compare and contrast.
Talk to us about the ways in which Magical Negro extends what you've been working on before and the ways it's a shift, whether in tone or strategy or content.
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