Black Movie

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
Published: 07/01/2015
Pages: 52
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781943735006
ISBN10: 194373500X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | American | African American & Black