Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection "[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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Graywolf Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 167mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 187g
• ISBN-13: 9781555977856
• ISBN-10: 1555977855
• Artikelnr.: 47220925

Autorenporträt

Danez Smith

Rezensionen

This book is poetry as fierce fire. There is such intelligence and fervor in these poems about black men and their imperiled bodies, gay men and their impassioned bodies, what it means to be HIV positive, and so much more. Every poem impressed me, and the level of craft here is impeccable Roxane Gay