In highly charged, dazzling language, 4:30 Movie explores a sister's death and the ways movies shape our imaginations. In poems that are by turns intimate and wild, provocative and tender, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss, global violence, and the consolations of art. She brin
Black Movie: Poems
โ Scribed by Smith, Danez
- Book ID
- 109551870
- Publisher
- SCB Distributors
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781943735006
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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
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