Black Movie: Poems

"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

• Publisher: Button Poetry (July 1, 2015)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 52 pages
• ISBN-10: 194373500X
• ISBN-13: 9781943735006
• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.16 x 8.5 inches