The only thing more beautiful than Beyonc is God, and God is a Black woman sipping ros and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing 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 sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of Black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments 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.

Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc (2017), Other Peoples Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (2015), and the forthcoming poetry collection Magical Negro (2019). Her debut young adult novel Who Put This Song On? is forthcoming from Delacorte Press in late 2019, and her debut book of nonfiction will be released in 2020 by One World.

Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her poetry and essays have been published and anthologized in numerous publications, including The Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, The New York Times, and The Nation. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow.

She is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She is a Sagittarius, and she lives in Los Angeles.

• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
• Paperback:96pages
• Publisher:Tin House Books (February 14, 2017)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:1941040535
• ISBN-13:9781941040539
• Product Dimensions:5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches