Morgan Parker

From the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award 'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the Water Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets - is back in print, featuring a new introduction from Danez Smith. 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.

With a new introduction by Danez Smith

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night

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feel the exhaustion of wearing the mask, the weight of being Black in non- Black public, the talent that living takes. This feels a long question across Morgan’s work, a Real World rewrite: what if we stopped persisting, stopped having to survive, stopped performing, and just got to be? Maybe not a question, but a plea, a prayer for self and her people alike. Can I live?

-"Epistolary Poem for Reader, Brother, Grandmother, Men (or, When I Say I Want to Spit You Up)"

’s too late for coffee, or reason, or capability.

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