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ISBN-10: 1941040535
ISBN-13: 9781941040539
Publisher: Tin House Books
Publish Date: 02/14/2017
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

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The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.

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[Morgan Parker's] poems are delightful in their playful ability to rake through our contemporary moment in search of all manner of riches, just as they are devastating in their ability to remind us of what we look like when nobody''''s watching, and of what the many things we don''''t–or can''''t–say add up to.–Tracy K. Smith
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ISBN-10: 1941040535
ISBN-13: 9781941040539
Publisher: Tin House Books
Publish Date: 02/14/2017
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H
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