OTHER PEOPLE’S COMFORT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT
Poetry. Tin House Books, Reissue, 2021.
With a new introduction by Danez Smith!
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WHO PUT THIS SONG ON?
Young Adult Fiction. Delacorte Press, 2019.
A 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 to be politely ignored.
“It’s perfect.” —Samantha Irby
"A funny, clever, wild ride of a story about growing up and breaking free.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Touches upon matters of respectability and ‘presentableness,’ stigmas against discussing mental health issues in the black community and among young adults, and internalized and societal racism.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
magical negro
Poetry. Tin House, 2019.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award!
“If you’re anxious for your snug perspective to be rattled and ripped asunder, for the predictable landscape you stroll to become all but unrecognizable, for things you thought you knew to slap you into another consciousness―brethren, have I got the book for you. Bey’s bestie continues her reign with this restless, fierce, and insanely inventive way of walking through the world. Once again, children―ignore Ms. Parker at your peril.” ―Patricia Smith
THERE ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAN BEYONCE
Poetry. Tin House, 2017.
The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive.
"This singular poetry collection is a dynamic meditation on the experience of, and societal narratives surrounding, contemporary black womanhood. . . . These exquisite poems defy categorization." ―The New Yorker