The Killer Will Remain Free: On Pat Parker and the Poetics of Madness

Authors

Kazim Ali, Oberlin College

Abstract

Poet and scholar Kazim Ali reads Pat Parker's Movement in Black intimately, one poet to another, uncovering the shadow-fact of the lives of most people of color: not only the anger that is somehow sublimated into every part of our lives but also the issue that carrying this feeling around has on our mental health itself-that "anger" and "madness" might have sources in one another. Ali concludes that Parker offers a brutal and clear-eyed and ultimately hopeful assessment of the conditions that were faced at the time, and even now, by communities of color.

Repository Citation

Ali, Kazim. 2015. "The Killer Will Remain Free: On Pat Parker and the Poetics of Madness." Journal of Lesbian Studies 19(3): 379-383.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

6-15-2015

Publication Title

Journal of Lesbian Studies

Department

Creative Writing

Additional Department

Comparative Literature

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2015.1028281

Keywords

Lorde, Audre, Ferguson, Parker, Pat, Ford, Priscilla, Mental health

Language

English

Format

text