{"product_id":"other-peoples-comfort-keeps-me-up-at-night-isbn-9781951142568","title":"Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eABA Indie Poetry Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/i\u003e, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Month by Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, \u003ci\u003eMs\u003c\/i\u003e. Magazine, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e, ALTA and a Best Book of the Summer by \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music.” ―Tracy K. Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eWade in the Water\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night\u003c\/i\u003e—the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets—is back in print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.” \u003ci\u003eOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night\u003c\/i\u003e not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work.\"Joyous, ironic, biting, knowing—Parker’s sublime poetry encapsulates and reflects our era.\"—\u003cb\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Parker’s] writing crackles with caustic humor and wrenching insight. You know from jump that she’s going places.\"—\u003cb\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Phenomenal.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stellar.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlamour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poetic superstar.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Captivating.\"—\u003cb\u003eALTA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What this re-release shows, more than anything, is that Parker has always possessed an uncanny ability to intermingle philosophy and lyric. . . . trust me, this is a collection you will want to spend time with.\"—\u003cb\u003eThe Poetry Question\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can and have read Morgan Parker’s poems over and over. They make me high and think like this: Her mind and her thoughts can go anywhere in a poem. . . . There are piles of masterpieces here.\"—\u003cb\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I love these poems by Morgan Parker. They tell everything exactly like it is, and they don’t let us off the hook. . . . They hit you with the authority and moral clarity of Langston Hughes, and have the omnivorous eye of Frank O’Hara.\"—\u003cb\u003eMatthew Rohrer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The introduction to everything we love about Morgan Parker’s work.\"—\u003cb\u003eThe Root\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Parker’s work is a refreshing departure from a medium usually dominated by white culture and standards of worth. \u003ci\u003eOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection well worth championing.\" —\u003cb\u003eBroad Street Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorgan Parker\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel \u003ci\u003eWho Put This Song On?\u003c\/i\u003e; and the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanez Smith is the author of \u003ci\u003e[insert] boy\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. 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