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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

door Morgan Parker

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"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. 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"--Publisher.… (meer)
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Ho comprato questo libro colpita da questa copertina e da questo titolo che mi sembravano gridare Fuck The Patriarchy con fierezza e sprezzo di ogni disapprovazione moralista. In effetti, ci sono dei versi molto belli sull’essere una donna nera in questi USA (e in questo mondo) dove essere una donna e avere la pelle nera diventa sempre più difficile.

Confesso che il motivo per cui queste poesie non mi hanno rubato il cuore ha più a che fare con la mia ignoranza che con qualche demerito di Morgan Parker. Non sono una persona particolarmente addentro alla cultura pop, non perché sia chissà quanto snob, ma piuttosto perché ne conosco solo determinati aspetti che hanno attratto la mia attenzione nel corso del tempo.

Per mia sfortuna, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé è zeppo di riferimenti a prodotti culturali che non ho visto, ascoltato o letto e quindi ho la sensazione di aver capito meno del cinquanta per cento dei versi che contiene. My bad.

Il colmo suppongo essere il fatto che non conosco nemmeno Beyoncé – non che non sappia chi sia, non arrivo a questi punti, ma è un’artista che non ascolto e della quale so pochissimo oltre al fatto che sia considerata praticamente una dea. E non l’ascolto perché non mi piace – non voglio scatenare l’ira funesta di chi l’adora – ma semplicemente perché penso di non avere l’orecchio abituato al R&B.

Quindi sappiate che There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé potrà richiedervi almeno un’infarinatura della produzione artistica di diversə artistə afroamericani per poter comprendere bene i suoi testi. Vorrei dirvi che sto scrivendo questa recensione con in sottofondo Beyoncé, ma in realtà sto ascoltando Tina Turner (che non è nel titolo, ma viene citata in 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl). ( )
  lasiepedimore | Jan 12, 2024 |
Just based on the title, I was expecting more. And then when I didn't get "more", I was hoping for a trickle... that didn't even happen. ( )
  KKOR2029 | Nov 2, 2023 |
Aggressive, clever, funny, shocking and real. It reminds me of some of Kathy Ackers most cutting passages. Punk as fuck, with moments of poignant beauty. An absolute joy of a book. ( )
  noblechicken | Aug 8, 2023 |
I loved Magical Negro so much that I was both excited to read this collection but also anxious that I would come to it with expectations too high and be let down, but I absolutely loved this.

THESE POEMS ARE SO GOOD. Bristling with righteous anger, and pride, and grief, and culture, and wit, and knowing, and precision. For a collection that name checks Nikki Giovanni (in "13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl"), it suddenly occurs to me that there is a lot of echoing/embodying "Ego-Tripping" here, though I can't imagine Giovanni as comfortable dipping into occasional vulgarity.

This collection calls all of us out (even the poet) and all of us back in. There are no wasted words, no vague poeticisms -- Parker wants you to know just what she means.

Morgan Parker is easily one of my top-five favorite poets writing today. ( )
  greeniezona | Jun 15, 2023 |
One of my absolute favorite books of poetry of all time. Everyone should read this at this very moment and always. ( )
  ostbying | Jan 1, 2023 |
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"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. 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"--Publisher.

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