Ebook {Epub PDF} There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker

 · Award-winning poet Morgan Parker and some of Portland’s best high school poets, Maia Abbruzzese (Lincoln High School), Tea Serena Johnson (Grant High School). There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. Poems by Morgan Parker. Tin House Books, February $; 80 pp. ISBN One way (of many) to describe how good poetry operates is to say that it reorganizes reality in some pleasurable or bracing manner. In concert with a reader, it enacts a spacious, flexile, indeterminate vocabulary for paying more attention to the . There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé: self-awareness, Leftover mascara in clumps, recognizing a pattern This is for all the grown women out there Whose countries hate them and their brothers Who carry knives in their purses down the street Maybe they will not get out alive Maybe they will turn into air or news or brown flower petals There are more beautiful things than Beyonce: 4/5().

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House) by Morgan Parker is a brash, risqué collection that explores what it means to be a black woman in contemporary American culture. Parker. Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé Fred Wildlife Refuge, Wed., March 8, pm Related Locations. "Poet Morgan Parker Explores the Facets of Black Womanhood in There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé." Interview by Smith Rich, The Stranger, Books, 28 Feb.,

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. by Morgan Parker. This is an eBook that you can download electronically. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. Poems by Morgan Parker. Tin House Books, February $; 80 pp. ISBN One way (of many) to describe how good poetry operates is to say that it reorganizes reality in some pleasurable or bracing manner. In concert with a reader, it enacts a spacious, flexile, indeterminate vocabulary for paying more attention to the world, for italicizing human and natural events, for vocalizing selfhood. ""There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé: self-awareness,/Leftover mascara in clumps, recognizing a pattern/This is for all the grown women out there/Whose countries hate them and their brothers/Who carry knives in their purses down the street/Maybe they will not get out alive/Maybe they will turn into air or news or brown flower petals," writes Morgan Parker in the title poem of her new collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. If that doesn't pique your interest.