There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

I'm not usually a person to pick up a volume of just poetry, but I'd loved Morgan Parker's fiction and essays so much I decided to give this a try. (Also the title is, obviously, compelling–although in one of her essays she mentioned wishing she hadn't given it this title because everyone sort of reduced their reviews to cheap Beyonce jokes rather than engage with the work itself, which.....fair)

anyway I'm still not much of a poetry reader per se but these are beautiful.

this wasn't really a writing style i enjoyed. i only liked the poem: “delicate and jumpy”.

Uhg, I never know how to rate poetry. Did I love every poem in this collection? No. But the majority were good. I read some of them aloud just to appreciate how the words sounded in the air. It sounded yummy.