![]() Parker, whose first book won the Gatewood Prize, is as self-assured as the women who appear in these pages, including Queen Latifah, Nikki Giovanni and Michelle Obama. brash, risqué collection that explores what it means to be a black woman in contemporary American culture. Everywhere Parker looks, she sees a wildly messed-up world - "There's far too many of me dying" "The President be like/ we lost a young boy today." She also answers a personal and public mandate to re-envision it through humor and confrontation. Morgan Parker''s bombastic second book profoundly expresses a black millennial consciousness with anger and appetite. ![]() This singular poetry collection is a dynamic meditation on the experience of, and societal narratives surrounding, contemporary black womanhood. Ranging from orderly couplets to an itemized list titled after Jay Z’s "99 Problems" to lines interrupted by gaping white space, these exquisite poems defy categorization. ![]() ![]() There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce ![]()
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