One thing that interests me about Beyoncé is who her predecessors are, and how she’s a kind of symbol for all the different ways that black women are revered but also surveilled in a really intense way, put on display.
Morgan Parker’s poetry collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, comes out in 2017. Alex Dueben’s interview with Parker at the Paris Review touches on the tradition of pop-culture references, the echo chamber of history and mythology, and black womanhood.
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