Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Paperback 96 pages English September 05, 2017
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Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner 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.
- Author:
- Danez Smith
- Publisher:
- Graywolf Press
- Publication Date:
- September 05, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 96 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1555977855
- ISBN-13:
- 9781555977856