num_pages: 85
description: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc 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. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism examining and confronting modern media consumption feminism and Blackness. 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. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies stories and histories of the past as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present and actively probing toward a new self an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow of vulnerability and posturing of desire and disgust of tragedy and excellence.
language: English
title: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
publisher: Tin House Books