title: 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.
authors.affiliation: a Creative Writing and Comparative Literature, Oberlin College , Oberlin , Ohio , USA.
authors.forename: Kazim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ali
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People / Q000266:history*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012938:Social Perception; D014481:United States; D014933:Women's Rights / Q000266:history*; D001741:Black or African American
keywords: Audre Lorde; Ferguson; Jonestown; Pat Parker; Priscilla Ford; mental health