David Naimon
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first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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talk about about poems and that you're arranging your poems to in a way underscore your thesis um and one of the conceptual artists you refer to in magical negro adrian piper says in an interview with john berger that while she finds analysis of racism praiseworthy she wants her artwork to help people confront their own racist views which i
When I thought of that, I wondered if that was the argument or that was the construction of Magical Negro also in some sense.
I just want to hear your thoughts on argumentation essentially or underscoring a thesis when it comes to creating art.
Uh, maybe this is a good time for another poem.
Yeah.
Um, magical Negro number 89, Michael Jackson in blackface on a date with Tatum O'Neill, 1970s.
I have not.
I'll look it up.
been listening to Morgan Parker read from her latest collection of poetry, Magical Negro from Tin House Books.
So this poem ends with you in bed with a white lover and you have another poem in the collection, Matt, that I think has taken on a life of its own in the world more than any other poem?
Yeah, so I want to hear about the impulse behind the Matt poem, but also as much about how Matt has traveled since Matt has been released into the world,
unexpected ways Matt has sort of touched people and become a phenomenon.
I wondered if it was even particularly those guys, like you have this line, you have this line, I could never love him.
He floats.
And it made me think thematically to the, to another poem in the collection, guess who's coming to dinner with Spencer Tracy at the ice cream parlor.
He's sort of floating.
He's floating on his abundance of choices rather than grappling
reality.
And it made me think of,
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