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.--VogueA 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 playsImperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom,BettingonDust Commander, Pickling,The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World,Devotees in the Garden of Love,andThe America Play.