THERE ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAN BEYONC

One Of Oprah MagazineS Ten Best Books Of 2017A Time Magazine Best Paperback Of 2017Publishers WeeklyS Ten Best Poetry Collections Of Springa Most Anticipated Book At Buzzfeed, Nylon And Bustleone Of IDS Emerging Female Authors To Read In 2017Outstanding Collection Of Poems. So Much Soul. So Much Intelligence In How Parker Folds In Cultural References And The Experiences Of Black Womanhood. Every Poem Will Get Its Hooks Into You. And Of Course, The Poems About Beyonc Are The Greatest Because Beyonc Is Our Queen. Roxane GayI Can And Have Read Morgan ParkerS Poems Over And Over . . . She Writes History And Pleasure And Kitsch And Abstraction, Then Vanishes Like A God In About 13 Inches. Eileen MylesMorgan Parker Has A Mind Like Wildfire And These Pages Are Lit. I CanT Recall Being This Enthralled, Entertained, And Made Alert By A Book In A Very Long Time. Jami Attenbergthe Only Thing More Beautiful Than Beyonc Is God, And God Is A Black Woman Sipping Ros And Drawing A Lavender Bath, Texting Her Mom, BellyLaughing In The TherapistS 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 Sequinned, These Poems Are An Altar To The Complexities Of Black American Womanhood In An Age Of NonIndictments And DJ Vu, And A Time Of Wars Over Bodies And Power. These Poems Celebrate And Mourn. They Are A Chorus Chanting: YouRe Gonna Give Us The Love We Need.