Don't Call Us Dead: Poems Contributor(s): Smith, Danez (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977855 ISBN-13: 9781555977856 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Lgbt |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2017930111 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.5" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 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. |