Don't Call Us Dead
Poems
About this book
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.
Subjects
- african american
- african american men
- african americans
- american
- american poetry
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- collection:thom_gunn_award=finalist
- création parlée
- english & college success -> english -> poetry
- gay erotic poetry
- gay men
- general
- hiv infections
- hiv-positive men
- hommes noirs américains
- hommes séropositifs
- homosexuels masculins
- infections à vih
- lgbtq hiv/aids
- lgbtq poetry
- male homosexuality
- médecine dans la littérature
- medicine in literature
- noirs américains
- poésie
- poetry
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- poets
- spoken word poetry
- transgender people
- transgender persons
- transgenres
- violence against
- violence envers