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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Smith, Danez

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1555977855
ISBN13: 9781555977856
Publisher: Gray Wolf Pr
Published: Sep 5 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.--The New Yorker

Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality--the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood--and a diagnosis of HIV positive. Some of us are killed / in pieces, Smith writes, some of us all at once. Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America--Dear White America--where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.

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