ENGLISH 131 Lecture 25: 12/2 Morgan Parker - Other Ppl's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
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Review session on wednesday; extra oh wed 2-5 representational equity. ^^ above 2 -> refilling poem w/ what is miss ing (cf in search of morgan . + -> revising what counts as appropriate subject (pun: as author, as topic) (enlargement of what can count as the poetic; redressing notable absences in the record) Several poems in the book called miss black america ; the miss there speaks as much to lack as it"s a term for a young lady. What"s missing from representations of persons in am + what"s missing in representations made by others of black women in am. Epigraph from another poet; and one from jay z. Her body/psychic positn itself always being filled w/ misrepresentations, racist applications, actual touch. Substitutes in her lived exp for official" exps/representations. Poem has a status in this book as self-med, hopefully more successful.
