"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue
A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the playsย Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom,ย Bettingย onย Dust Commander, Pickling,ย The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World,ย Devotees in the Garden of Love,ย andย The America Play.