Research Catalog

Title

Don't call us dead : poems / Danez Smith.

Author

Smith, Danez

Publication

• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
• Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry. WU

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--Publisher's description.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Do not call us dead

Subject

• African American men > Poetry
• African American men > Violence against > Poetry
• HIV-positive men > Poetry
• Gay men > Poetry
• Transgender people > Poetry
• Gay erotic poetry
• Spoken word poetry
• African Americans
• HIV infections
• Medicine in literature
• Two-spirit people
• Transgender people > Poetry
• Black or African American
• HIV Infections
• Homosexuality, Male
• Transgender Persons
• Medicine in Literature
• Hommes noirs américains > Poésie
• Hommes noirs américains > Violence envers > Poésie
• Hommes séropositifs > Poésie
• Homosexuels masculins > Poésie
• Transgenres > Poésie
• Création parlée
• Noirs américains
• Infections à VIH
• Médecine dans la littérature
• Personnes bispirituelles
• African American
• POETRY > American > African American
• African American men
• Gay men
• HIV-positive men
• Transgender people
• HIV-positive people
• HIV/AIDS
• Men
• LGBTQ+ people
• Sexual minorities
• Gender minorities
• STDs
• Gender identity
• Minnesota > Poets

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Gay poetry.
• LGBTQ+ poetry.
• Transgender poetry.
• LGBTQ+ literature.
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 85).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781555977856
• 1555977855

LCCN

• 2017930111
• 99976193605

OCLC

• 965740795
• SCSB-10540731

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library