Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Morgan Parker says that the poems in her book There Are Things More Beautiful than Beyoncé take a stand against the clichés of the dominant culture.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.
0:30.6	Today, my guest is Morgan Parker, a poet.
0:34.6	She's written a book whose title I've been telling people for weeks now. I think
0:40.0	it's such a great title. It's called There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, and it's
0:46.4	published by Tin House. Well, first of all, I guess, are there people who think there aren't?
0:53.1	Yes. There are.
0:54.2	And they're on the Internet, and they're talking to me.
0:57.7	And it's, you know, it's been so interesting because when I came up with the title, I didn't
1:03.2	think of it as controversial in the slightest.
1:06.7	I thought of it as a factual statement.
1:09.1	There are many beautiful things.
1:10.7	Beyonce is one of them, but not the only one.
1:14.1	And, you know, the people on the Internet saying, you know, Morgan Parker is on drugs.
1:21.3	Morgan Parker is wrong.
1:23.5	I disagree with this.
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