Don't Call Us Dead

✍ Scribed by Danez Smith

• Book ID: 100247269
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781555979775

✦ Synopsis

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith --"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patricia Smith)

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.