Morgan Parker, There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, 2d. ed. (Portland, OR, & Brooklyn, NY: Tin House Books, 2017) (From the book flap: "The only thing more beautiful than Beyonce is God, and God is a black woman sipping rose and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist's 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 deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power, These poems celebrate and mourn. The are a chorus chanting: You're gonna give s the love we need.").
Morgan Parker, Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (Chicago: Switchback Books, 2015).
