Morgan Parker’s latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness. Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a collection well worth championing. Parker’s work is a refreshing departure from a medium usually dominated by white culture and standards of worth. The introduction to everything we love about Morgan Parker’s work. They hit you with the authority and moral clarity of Langston Hughes, and have the omnivorous eye of Frank O’Hara. They tell everything exactly like it is, and they don’t let us off the hook. They make me high and think like this: Her mind and her thoughts can go anywhere in a poem. I can and have read Morgan Parker’s poems over and over. trust me, this is a collection you will want to spend time with. What this re-release shows, more than anything, is that Parker hasĪlways possessed an uncanny ability to intermingle philosophy and lyric. You know from jump that she’s going places. writing crackles with caustic humor and wrenching insight. Copyright © 2019 by Morgan Parker.Joyous, ironic, biting, knowing-Parker’s sublime poetry encapsulates and reflects our era. Katharine Hepburn shines in this Academy Award Winning role.įrom Magical Negro. She is loud and hardened, a thing to be tolerated, and she makes the most fantastic pies. The dilemma-the unfortunate and unwavering dark sky, how in it, the crescent moon is even more beautiful-is a point of contention and debate for all characters, but perhaps most notably for the family’s angry, wise-cracking black cook, Tillie. Having almost consumed both scoops of boysenberry, Spencer Tracy has to admit it isn’t half bad. Why any objection would be reasonable is implied. World-class deliverer of ultimatums, very well-spoken, perhaps even unbelievable in his broad-shouldered and gentle luminosity, Sidney Poitier has granted Spencer Tracy permission to say no. Of the boysenberry ice cream, he says, “This isn’t the stuff.” Hours before, his daughter brought home Sidney Poitier, played by Sidney Poitier. He lifts the white plastic spoon to his curling lips. He doesn’t understand why anything has to change. Spencer Tracy can have whatever he wants, but he pines for the familiar thing. Reciting each one, the waitress on roller skates is very obviously bored by the embarrassment of available choices. At the drive-in, he tells the waitress on roller skates that he can’t remember the particular flavor of ice cream. Spencer Tracy, growing more frustrated, decides to take a drive, in search of a particular flavor of ice cream.
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