Don't Call Us Dead: Poems Contributor(s): Smith, Danez (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977855 ISBN-13: 9781555977856 Publisher: Graywolf Press
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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" L (0.40 lbs) 96 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Price on Product | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards: National Book Awards, Finalist, Poetry, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017 Library Journal 08/01/2017 pg. 98 Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. |
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