Overview
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
ā[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.āāThe New Yorker
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Donāt 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, mortalityāthe dangers experienced in skin and body and bloodāand a diagnosis of HIV positive. āSome of us are killed / in pieces,ā Smith writes, āsome of us all at once.ā Donāt Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes AmericaāāDear White Americaāāwhere every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.
This book title, Don't Call Us Dead (Poems), ISBN: 9781555977856, by Danez Smith, published by Graywolf Press (September 5, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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