God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker women'spoetry In the mid-20th century American

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God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker women'spoetry In the mid-20th century AmericanGod Forbid They Hear Us Laughing by Bobby Parker is a savage, tender selection that holds fatherhood and addiction, love and shame, sex and violence in the same shaking hands. These poems move through council estates, underpasses, chip shops, pubs, pharmacies, church tents and school corridors with a voice that is brazenly funny and abruptly devastating, switching from punchline to prayer in a breath. Parker's work is stocked with the lived textures