Morgan Parker (1) (1987–)
Author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
For other authors named Morgan Parker, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Image credit: Author Morgan Parker at the 2017 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63910057
Works by Morgan Parker
Associated Works
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Contributor — 898 copies, 21 reviews
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 201 copies, 4 reviews
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 189 copies, 4 reviews
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015) — Contributor — 175 copies, 2 reviews
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 32 copies, 1 review
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- Birthdate
- 1987-12-19
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
Just based on the title, I was expecting more. And then when I didn't get "more", I was hoping for a trickle... that didn't even happen.
½Aggressive, clever, funny, shocking and real. It reminds me of some of Kathy Ackers most cutting passages. Punk as fuck, with moments of poignant beauty. An absolute joy of a book.
I loved Magical Negro so much that I was both excited to read this collection but also anxious that I would come to it with expectations too high and be let down, but I absolutely loved this.
THESE POEMS ARE SO GOOD. Bristling with righteous anger, and pride, and grief, and culture, and wit, and knowing, and precision. For a collection that name checks Nikki Giovanni (in "13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl"), it suddenly occurs to me that there is a lot of echoing/embodying "Ego-Tripping" here, though I can't imagine Giovanni as comfortable dipping into occasional vulgarity.
This collection calls all of us out (even the poet) and all of us back in. There are no wasted words, no vague poeticisms -- Parker wants you to know just what she means.
Morgan Parker is easily one of my top-five favorite poets writing today.… (more)
THESE POEMS ARE SO GOOD. Bristling with righteous anger, and pride, and grief, and culture, and wit, and knowing, and precision. For a collection that name checks Nikki Giovanni (in "13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl"), it suddenly occurs to me that there is a lot of echoing/embodying "Ego-Tripping" here, though I can't imagine Giovanni as comfortable dipping into occasional vulgarity.
This collection calls all of us out (even the poet) and all of us back in. There are no wasted words, no vague poeticisms -- Parker wants you to know just what she means.
Morgan Parker is easily one of my top-five favorite poets writing today.… (more)
One of my absolute favorite books of poetry of all time. Everyone should read this at this very moment and always.
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- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 733
- Popularity
- #34,655
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 32
- ISBNs
- 37