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Black Movie
Black Movie | Danez Smith
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Poetry. African American Studies. 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."
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dreamingpoet
Black Movie | Danez Smith

‘how long

   does it take

  a story

   to become

  a legend?

  how long before

   a legend

  becomes

   a god or

  forgotten?

  ask the rain

   what it was

  like to be the river

  then ask

   who it drowned.‘

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MsLeah8417
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Naj
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In love with this poet! A #blameitonlitsy read thanks to @Bertha_Mason 💜
A must read. I think most poems are also available online. Here's the link to my favorite poem (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57585/dinosaurs-in-the-hood)

Bertha_Mason I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 5y
Naj @Bertha_Mason There are so many books I've stacked from your posts lol. I'm sure they'll be just as good. 5y
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Naj
Black Movie | Danez Smith

Be Prepared
for the hands, wild in your wildless hair
for the darkest toll, your double down to get half
to spread your legs while they search for drugs there
for the drug there, for their mouths to ask that big question
for the man, ecstatic with triggers
for the stampede of tiny lead beasts
for the jury not to flinch.

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Bertha_Mason
Black Movie | Danez Smith

"Besides, / the only reason I want to make this is for that first scene anyway: // little black boy on the bus with a toy dinosaur, / his eyes wide & endless // his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there."
-"Dinosaurs in the Hood"

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Bertha_Mason
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-"Dinosaurs in the Hood"

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Bertha_Mason
Black Movie | Danez Smith

"think: once, a white girl // was kidnapped & that's the Trojan war. // later, up the block, Troy got shot / and that was Tuesday."
-"Short Film: ii. not an elegy for Mike Brown"

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Thndrstd
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A chapbook of poems confronting the perils of race in contemporary America through reimagining popular films. Many of these poems appear in Don't Call Us Dead (which I read first) so I was already familiar with a lot of them, but they are still powerful and haunting.

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shawnmooney
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Lindy I‘ve been reading Danez Smith too. Powerful stuff. 👍 6y
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shawnmooney
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MayJasper Um... 6y
LeahBergen Whuh?? 6y
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tamaria
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#grateful for these mornings of #poetry in bed, the hands that hold the book

"clip 1: the boy getting older in spite of everything

clip 2: the boy & the boy-friends smoking blunts
for once something else brown & on fire"

From "Lion King in the Hood"