There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
by:
Morgan Parker (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781941040539 (1941040535)
ASIN: 1941040535
Publish date: 2017-02-14
Publisher: Tin House Books
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
"Summertime and the living isextraordinarily difficult... This book is uncorrected proof. You read iton your eyelids. You sleep under it. ...You say you read it but you didn't." Sometimes books of poetry are extremely accessible with easy subjects about love and trees. Sometimes the poems are so t...