Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection " Smith's]...
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Smith, Danez

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

$36.25

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

$36.25
Author: Danez Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Danez Smith
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781555977856


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017
Library Journal 08/01/2017 pg. 98
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 31

About the Author
Danez Smith is the author of [insert] boy, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Smith has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the Poetry Foundation, and lives in Minneapolis.

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