Black Movie Regency Romances often drastically

often drastically

Jonathan Blake

unrequited longing--a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists

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Black Movie Regency Romances often drastically2014 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