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

 · In the book’s title poem, Parker writes, There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé: self-awareness, Leftover mascara in clumps, recognizing a pattern. This is for all the grown women out Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.  · By Tahirah Hairston. Morgan Parker. Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Things Morgan Parker thinks are more beautiful than Beyoncé: “self-awareness,” “leftover mascara in clumps,” and “the fucking sky.”. Which is not to say that Parker finds her uninteresting; throughout her latest collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, the year-old poet uses one of the world’s most Author: Tahirah Hairston. 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().

The title of this book is There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce and it was written by Morgan Parker. This particular edition is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of $ It was published by Tin House Books and has a total of 80 pages in the book. Morgan Parker is the author of the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (), and Magical Negro (), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and creator and host of the. In Parker's second collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, out from Tin House Books on February 14, she draws a stark contrast between black female celebrity and white female.

""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. In the book’s title poem, Parker writes, There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé: self-awareness, Leftover mascara in clumps, recognizing a pattern. This is for all the grown women out. Poetry is language operating at its highest purpose, called through compression and complexity of image to function on an aesthetic level while communicating meaning. What better art form than poetry, then, for Morgan Parker to use in her new book, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé? The book is a tribute to Black American womanhood, an ode to the joys and sorrows and triumphs of being Black and female in this sick, lovely, dangerous world—and every word inside is beautiful.