Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House, 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. Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, a Goodreads Choice Award semi-finalist, and Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize.
She 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. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, a Goodreads Choice Award semi-finalist, and Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize.
Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless and sequinned, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and déjà vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. I can’t recall being this enthralled, entertained, and made alert by a book in a very long time.’ Jami Attenberg ‘Morgan Parker has a mind like wildfire and these pages are lit. She writes history and pleasure and kitsch and abstraction, then vanishes like a god in about 13 inches.’ Eileen Myles ‘I can and have read Morgan Parker’s poems over and over. And of course, the poems about Beyoncé are the greatest because Beyoncé is our queen.’ Roxane Gay So much intelligence in how Parker folds in cultural references and the experiences of black womanhood. One of i-D’s emerging female authors to read in 2017 Publishers Weekly ‘s Ten Best Poetry Collections of SpringĪ Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed, NYLON and Bustle One of Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of 2017
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