Mythen en stoplichten is geschreven vóór en tijdens het proces van Adilows transitie
A theory of poetry as the confusion of mistake and premise develops from the conversation between them
overflowing and flowering
always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’
where everything is lost and yet ‘nothing goes away’
Magical Negro 3 Summers Mythen en stoplichten is geschrevenMorgan Parker Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of