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Books by Morgan Parker






Magical Negro(1st Edition)
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-947793-18-7, ISBN: 1-947793-18-7

"A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner!From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. "Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read―both as an account of a private life and as s ..."






There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce(1st Edition)
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-941040-53-9, ISBN: 1-941040-53-5

"Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of SpringA Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed, NYLON, and Bustle "This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star."  ―Terrance Hayes There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depr ..."






Who Put This Song On?
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Atom
ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5421-7, ISBN: 1-4721-5421-5






Who Put This Song On?
by Morgan Parker
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Delacorte Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-70751-6, ISBN: 0-525-70751-4

""Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest." —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in Pieces, comes poet Morgan Parker's pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something ..."






Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night
(Paperback)
by Morgan Parker, Danez Smith
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2021 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-951142-56-8, ISBN: 1-951142-56-X

"I start taking notes: She is making a map of what human can be... she's raucous and engaged... indeterminate, visceral... collisions... these are full adventures in scale... Morgan Parker is both intellectual and concerned."






Magical Negro
(Paperback)
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Corsair
ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5407-1, ISBN: 1-4721-5407-X

"'To read Magical Negro it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over, of Parker's extraordinary lyric gifts' Meghan O'RourkeMagical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms and customs. These poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. ..."






There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5318-0, ISBN: 1-4721-5318-9

"A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Collection of SpringA Paris Review Staff PickA Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at NPR.org, BuzzFeed, VICE, NYLON, and more"This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star."  ―Terrance Hayes The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender b ..."






Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole Leblanc, Moses Sumney, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Dave Cole, David Cole
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2020 by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-9040-7, ISBN: 1-5011-9040-7

"To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Un ..."






Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Paperback)
by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole Leblanc
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2021 by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-9041-4, ISBN: 1-5011-9041-5

"... Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, ... Moriel Rothman- Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, ... FIGHT of the CENTURY Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases E D I TED BY MICHAEL CHABON & AYELET ..."






Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
by Morgan Parker
120 Pages, Published 2021 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-951142-57-5, ISBN: 1-951142-57-8

"Edited by Sinéad McCarthy (Art Books Publishing, July 2018): “White Walls White People” Vanitas: “White Walls White People” Gigantic Sequins: “There Are Other Things I Want to Explain but They Are Mysteries” Tin House: “Poem Made of ..."






Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole Leblanc, Moses Sumney
288 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-9042-1, ISBN: 1-5011-9042-3

"... Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor ... A forty-eight-year-old Jewish ACLU volunteer named Allen Brown. Brown died in 2004, but his friend and colleague Norman Slutsky said of him: “If ever there was a Jewish saint, it was Allen."






Black Dog
by Morgan Parker
240 Pages, Published 2019 by Corsair
ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5420-0, ISBN: 1-4721-5420-7






Magical Negro
by Morgan Parker
80 Pages, Published 2019 by Hachette Uk
ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5406-4, ISBN: 1-4721-5406-1

"Focused primarily on depictions of Black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience."






Magical Negro
by Morgan Parker
112 Pages, Published 2019 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-947793-19-4, ISBN: 1-947793-19-5

"... Eve L. Ewing, Fatimah Ashgar, Sam Sax, Natalie Eilbert, Molly Rose Quinn, DeLana R. A. Dameron, Nicole Sealey, Shira Erlichman, Mahoghany L. Browne, Diamond Sharp, Matt Rohrer, Thomas Parker, Meg and Tiona and Kameelah and the whole ..."






Who Put This Song On
by Morgan Parker
336 Pages, Published 2019 by Delacorte Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-70752-3, ISBN: 0-525-70752-2

"This morning I am a scientific curiosity on the examination table at Dr. Li's office, a place I've been coming to since I was a kid. Except this time, I'm not getting shots for the new school year. I'm getting pills. Dr. Li already spoke to Susan about ..."






Speech/Acts
by Harryette Mullen, Meg Onli, Fred Moten, Morgan Parker, Simone White
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2018 by Institute Of Contemporary Art At University Of Pennsylvania/Futurepoem
ISBN-13: 978-0-88454-143-1, ISBN: 0-88454-143-6

"Speech/Acts brings together new and recent works by a generation of artists influenced by black experimental poetry. Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted. Artists Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, ..."






There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
by Morgan Parker
80 Pages, Published 2017 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-941040-54-6, ISBN: 1-941040-54-3

"... muses: John Coltrane, Carrie Mae Weems, Billie Holiday, Nelly, Drake, Peanut Butter Wolf, W. B. Yeats, Fania All Stars, Digable Planets, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Barack and Michelle Obama, Jay Z, and of course, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter."






1986
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 346 Pages, Published 2016 by Quotestork Media, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9950322-2-4, ISBN: 0-9950322-2-X

"Caught between two men -- one she loves and the other she can't help but love -- Allana must deliberate the role she plays in the moments leading to humankind's greatest disaster... in 1986."






Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night(1st Edition)
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2015 by Switchback Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9861876-1-2, ISBN: 0-9861876-1-5

"Poetry. African American Studies. "I love these poems by Morgan Parker. They tell everything exactly like it is, and they don't let us off the hook about how we run this country, about race, about how we spend our time. They treat our private, public, and online lives with all the love and scorn they deserve. They hit you with the authority and moral clarity of Langston Hughes, and have the omnivorous eye of Frank O'Hara. They have a Ne ..."






Violets & Violence
by Morgan Parker
Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2014 by Quotestork Media Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9917648-9-1, ISBN: 0-9917648-9-7

"Violet has magical talent. She can levitate, walk through glass, and be in two places at one time. What happens when Violet discovers true magic in the arms of a new man? Luke Kemble enjoys the luxury of having Violet, all of her magic and all of her beauty, all to himself. What happens to Luke's illusion of reality when he and the love of his life are threatened by a man from their past, a dangerous one that holds grudges and anger? ..."



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