Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

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The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith Hallelujah is an understatement (Patricia Smith) 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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    do i think someone created AIDS?
    maybe. i don't doubt that
    anything is possible in a place
    where you can burn a body
    with less outrage than a flag


    the entirety of bare is one of the most beautiful things i've ever read and now i want to read everything that danez smith has ever written

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