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
Author: Danez Smith
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 07/01/2015
Series: Button Poetry Contest Winner #3
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781943735006
Language: English
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