One of Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2017A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of Spring A Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed NYLON & Bustle One of i-D's emerging female authors to read in 2017 ' Outstanding collection of poems So much soul So much intelligence in how Parker folds in cultural references & the experiences of black womanhood Every poem will get its hooks into you & of course the poems about Beyonce are the greatest because Beyonce is our queen' Roxane Gay 'I can & have read Morgan Parker's poems over & over She writes history & pleasure & kitsch & abstraction then vanishes like a god in about 13 inches' Eileen Myles' Morgan Parker has a mind like wildfire & these pages are lit I can't recall being this enthralled entertained & made alert by a book in a very long time' Jami Attenberg The only thing more beautiful than Beyonce is God & God is a black woman sipping rose & drawing a lavender bath texting her mom belly-laughing in the therapist's office feeling unloved being on display daring to survive Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability & performance of desire & disgust of tragedy & excellence Unrelentingly feminist tender ruthless & sequinned these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments & deja vu & a time of wars over bodies & power These poems celebrate & mourn They are a chorus chanting You're gonna give us the love we need