There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé / Morgan Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Morgan, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Local Subjects:

American poetry--21st century.

African American women--Poetry.

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2017.

Summary:

"There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism, examining and confronting modern media, consumption, feminism, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate, folding in references from jazz standards, visual art, personal family history, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies, stories, and histories of the past, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present, and actively probing toward a new self, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow, of vulnerability and posturing, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence"--Publisher.

ISBN:

9781941040539

1941040535

OCLC:

951925808

Publisher Number:

99971585412