Black Movie

By: Smith, Danez

Book Overview

2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner

"These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way-saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, black movie repeats."-Marcus Wicker "Danez Smith's BLACK MOVIE is a cinematic tour-de-force that lets poetry vie with film for the honor of which medium can most effectively articulate the experience of Black America."-Rain Taxi

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194373500X
• ISBN13: 9781943735006
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Button Poetry
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"