Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
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9781555977856
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Graywolf Press
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Author:
Danez Smith
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English
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Paperback
Publication Date:
09/05/2017 00:00
ISBN:
1555977855
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96
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9781555977856
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry “[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”―The New Yorker 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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The book, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9781555977856 in Paperback by Danez Smith may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.