Williamsburg Regional Library

Other people's comfort keeps me up at night, Morgan Parker

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

poetry

Other people's comfort keeps me up at night

1201298554

Morgan Parker

"The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she's become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor 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 not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker's work"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- There are things I want to explain but they are mysteries -- The world is beautiful but you are not in it -- If my housemate fucks with me I would get so real (audition tape 1) -- Face cathedral -- Poem for the June eclipse -- Miss Black America -- Poem made of chewed-up nicorette from the garbage in front of Kate Hudson's house -- Real housewife defends herself in front of a live studio audience -- How to piss in public and maintain femininity -- The housecleaners, early Wednesday morning downtown -- Morgan what, Morgan who? -- Miss Black America -- I'm not like the king of Black people -- It doesn't get cold where we're from and we weren't taught -- Real housewife considers feminist theory while sketching designs for her handbag line -- I was trotting along and suddenly -- Boys, boys, boys -- Poem made of empty prescription bottles from the garbage in front of Bill Murray's house -- America this is for you (audition tape take 2) -- Greetings from struggle city -- There is another world and I am better in it -- In search of Morgan, season 3, episode 24 -- On getting one's groove back -- Miss Black America -- Everyone knows where art comes from it comes from the store -- Apology with pearls on -- Rest stop / Fresno County line / January -- White walls White people -- Young, sassy, and Black -- Quiet alcohol -- On children, how I hate them and want to corrupts them, and you know I hate them, and what that could mean -- Miss Black America -- I'd rather stink ... then call Brad for help! -- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- Hot serpent in the city -- Poem -- Poem -- Miss Black America -- Their grandmothers never did the laundry -- Epistolary poem for reader, brother, grandmother, men (or, when I say I want to spit you up) -- Look -- Blessings, injuries -- Everything is bothering me -- Apology in hopes of men -- Other people's comfort keeps me up at night

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