Parker is a poetic superstar

Vorwort
First UK publication of the immense debut collection of the breakout star author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce and Magical Negro: **award winning poet Morgan Parker**

Autorentext
Morgan Parker is the author of Magical Negro (Corsair 2019), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Corsair 2017), and Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (Switchback Books 2015). Her poetry and essays have been published and anthologized in numerous publications, including 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 for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Find her online at morgan-parker.com and on Twitter at @morganapple.

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From the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce and Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is the debut collection that launched the career of award-winning poet Morgan Parker. Here in these poems, her command of language is on full display. Morgan Parker bobs and weaves between humour 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 introduced an essential new voice to the world, containing everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker's work.

'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight and searing music' Tracy K. Smith

'I love these poems by Morgan Parker. They tell everything exactly like it is and they don't let us off the hook . . . They hit you with the authority and moral clarity of Langston Hughes and have the omnivorous eye of Frank O'Hara' Matthew Rohrer

Zusammenfassung
First UK publication of the immense debut collection of the breakout star author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce and Magical Negro: award winning poet Morgan Parker