Black Movie

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
• | Publisher: Button Poetry
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 52 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 194373500X
• | ISBN-13: 9781943735006