Don't Call Us Dead - Danez Smith

Descriere Don't Call Us Dead - Danez Smith

*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018* \n *A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017* \n \n *A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018* \n \n `[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy' The New Yorker \n \n Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking 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 an HIV-positive diagnosis. \n \n `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 an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. \n

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CHATTO & WINDUS

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ENSTK

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9781784742041

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1

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