{"product_id":"black-movie-9781943735006","title":"Black Movie","description":"2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children \/ smiling into the camera \u0026amp; the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way-saying \u0026amp; 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Danez:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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, \u0026amp; two chapbooks- \"black movie\" (Button Poetry, 2015), winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize, \u0026amp; \"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 \u0026amp; 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.","brand":"Button Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625623294226,"sku":"9781943735006","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7ea7cbfe-fdda-48b3-a476-7d1b51bb498a.jpg?v=1732633758","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-movie-9781943735006","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}