Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1555977855
ISBN 13
9781555977856
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Pages
96
Subject
Poetry by Black and African-American Authors
Description
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, 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 collection, one that confronts America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. -- from publisher's website
Number of Copies
2
