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