num_pages: 96
description: 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.
language: English
title: Don't Call Us Dead
publisher: Graywolf Press