Magical Negro city love hot enough to turn on

hot enough to turn on the hydrants and run through the water--and that means it's finally summer in the city

It also makes a great Mother's Day

and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes

and other period documents

In Black Smoke

Magical Negro city love hot enough to turn onBy Morgan Parker A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner! From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc 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 readboth as an account of a private life and as