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Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Parker presents an archive of black everydayness; a catalog of contemporary folk heroes. Her poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration. She connects themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification while exploring the troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. -- adapted from front flap
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
85 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate, folding in references from jazz standards, visual art, personal family history, and Hip Hop.
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