![]() ![]() Parker, who completed her graduate work at NYU and now lives in Brooklyn, is young, African American, and a woman. This would be true of any era, but in the shadow of Donald Trump these questions are especially grave. Moreover, it suits Morgan Parker’s new collection of poetry, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, very well.įor an American poet who wants to write honestly, this reorganization entails uneasy questions about race, gender, and sexual identity in particular, who gets to describe them, and how. There is a long humanist tradition of saying this, but it bears repeating under market capitalism. In concert with a reader, it enacts a spacious, flexile, indeterminate vocabulary for paying more attention to the world, for italicizing human and natural events, for vocalizing selfhood. One way (of many) to describe how good poetry operates is to say that it reorganizes reality in some pleasurable or bracing manner. ![]() There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé ![]()
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