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Morgan Parker


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Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, a Goodreads Choice Award semi-finalist, and Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, The New York Times, and The Nation. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is a Sagittarius. ...more

Average rating: 4.08 · 12,979 ratings · 1,929 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
There Are More Beautiful Th...

4.01 avg rating — 5,595 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions
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Magical Negro

4.31 avg rating — 2,724 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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Who Put This Song On?

3.90 avg rating — 1,713 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions
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Fight of the Century: Write...

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Other People's Comfort Keep...

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You Get What You Pay For: E...

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“You are beautiful because you’re funny. You are alive because you’re a question.”
Morgan Parker, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

“I am a dreamer with empty hands and I like the chill.”
Morgan Parker, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

“What kind of bodies are movable and feasts. What color are visions.”
Morgan Parker, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

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