And of course, the poems about Beyoncé are the greatest because Beyoncé is our queen. So much intelligence in how Parker folds in cultural references and the experiences of black womanhood. Like the “Fantastic Voyage” promised by R&B legends Lakeside, Parker’s work is “live, live, all the way live.” Get on board this trip it is like no other. They do not let you sit comfortably and idly and safe, but take you on an adventure like no other. “Art urges voyages.” Morgan Parker’s poems hurt deeply and voyage widely. “Art hurts,” wrote poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star. We have ideas and vaginas, history and clothes and a mother.” The kind of verve the late New York school Ted Berrigan would have called “feminine marvelous and tough” is here, as well as the kind of vulnerability that fortifies genuine daring. There are more beautiful things than Beyonce in these pages because, as Morgan Parker writes in poems channeling the president’s wife, the Venus Hottentot and multiple Beyonces, “we’re everyone.
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