Black Movie May 14\ the light of what it

the light of what it means to survive it

the book moves toward celebration

But this is also a book of humor

poet & educator

the winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize

Black Movie May 14\ the light of what itDanez Smith, 2015. Danez Smith's Black Movie, the winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize. Awards 2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner Praise These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make "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