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Don't call us dead : poems
- Title
- Don't call us dead : poems / Danez Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Danez
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- 88 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Smith's unflinching poetry addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity. The collection 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 on earth. "Dear White America," which Smith performed at the 2014 Rustbelt Midwest Region Poetry Slam, has as strong an impact on the page as it did on the spoken word stage. Smith's courage and hope amidst the struggle for unity in America will humble and uplift you.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Do not call us dead
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- American poetry – African American authors.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 85).
- Funding (note)
- Publication is made possible, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant. Funding also provided by Wells Fargo Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Target, the McKnight Foundation, and the Amazon Literary Partnership.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Award finalist.
- Contents
- Summer, somewhere -- Dear white America -- Dinosaurs in the hood -- It won't be a bullet -- Last summer of innocence -- A note on Vaseline -- A note on the phone app that tells me how far I am from other men's mouths -- & even the black guy's profile reads "sorry, no black guys" -- O nigga O -- ...nigga -- At the down-low house party -- Bare -- Seroconversion -- Fear of needles -- Recklessly -- Elegy with pixels & cum -- Litany with blood all over -- It began right here -- Crown -- Blood hangover -- 1 in 2 -- Every day is a funeral & a miracle -- Not an elegy -- A note on the body -- You're dead, America -- Strange dowry -- Tonight, in Oakland -- Little prayer -- Dream where every black person is standing by the ocean -- Notes.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-6
- ISBN
- 9781555977856
- 1555977855
- LCCN
- 2017930111
- OCLC
- 965740795
- Author
- Smith, Danez, author.
- Title
- Don't call us dead : poems / Danez Smith.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 85).
- Funding
- Publication is made possible, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant. Funding also provided by Wells Fargo Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Target, the McKnight Foundation, and the Amazon Literary Partnership.
- Awards
- National Book Award finalist.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry. WUMinnesota State Arts Board, funder.Wells Fargo Foundation, funder.Jerome Foundation, funder.Lannan Foundation, funder.Target Corporation, funder.McKnight Foundation, funder.Amazon Literary Partnership, funder.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-6