Black Movie - Paperback
by Danez Smith
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Availability:In StockContributor:Danez SmithSeries:Button Poetry Contest WinnerPublish date:2015-07-01Pages:52
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Button PoetryISBN-13:9781943735006ISBN-10:194373500XUPC:9781943735006Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, African American & BlackSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.1499Product ID:SCY8V0QR15
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
"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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Button PoetryISBN-13:9781943735006ISBN-10:194373500XUPC:9781943735006Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, African American & BlackSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.1499Product ID:SCY8V0QR15
Smith, Danez: - Danez Smith is the winner of a 2014 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. They are the author of Homie (Graywolf), Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf), "[insert] boy" (YesYes Books, 2014), one of the Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2014, & two chapbooks- "black movie" (Button Poetry, 2015), winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize, & "hands on ya knees" (Penmanship Books, 2013). Smith is a Cave Canem, VONA, and McKnight Foundation Fellow. Their writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative & elsewhere. They were featured in The Academy of American Poets' Emerging Poets Series by Patricia Smith. They are a founding member of the multi-genre, multicultural collective Dark Noise. Danez placed second at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam and is the two-time Rustbelt Regional Champion. In 2014, they were the Festival Director for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam. Danez holds a BA from UW-Madison where they were a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. They live in Minneapolis, MN.
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