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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Автор: Danez Smith
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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.
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Автор: Danez Smith
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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.
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Absolutely amazing. It seems one of a kind. Just a truly visceral experience that is a must-read for everyone. I can't believe I've waited this long to read this book. It was beyond any expectations I could have had of it.
Took me through his world, words were carefully chosen, the story unfolded through alliteration and imagery, definitely left an impact on the soul
Poetry so raw I almost chocked on its blood or in my tears.
Powerful, impactful and heartachingly beautiful poetry collection by Danez Smith where they talk about living black, queer and HIV positive in the USA. So many poems have given me chills, but just as many flew over my head (not because of what they are but because I am not very good at understanding poetry).
I have read Don’t Call Us Dead as ebook but I will be acquiring an audio book later this month to reread the collection via audio. I have listened to You’re Dead, America and Dear White America and they have impacted me more than just me reading the poems.
Highly recommend!
I have read Don’t Call Us Dead as ebook but I will be acquiring an audio book later this month to reread the collection via audio. I have listened to You’re Dead, America and Dear White America and they have impacted me more than just me reading the poems.
Highly recommend!
This poetry collection is fierce and burning and bright.
I don't like to compare artworks because it feels unkind to both artists, but this collection feels like the Oscar-winning film Moonlight in poetry form.
The way he writes is exceptional and effortless, except it's come from a place of effort so it truly means something. Smith takes a queer, black young men, boys 'as brown as rye bread' and creates a paradise for them, so that when they die at the hands of police violence, they can be loved, cherished and honoured in the way they deserve.
Except it's not heaven, because the boys never died. They live on, eternally, never to be forgotten. All of their toxic masculinity washed away.
Smith uses his poetry to discuss some things that the queer community has long neglected, racism on Grindr, HIV diagnoses and writes them into being. With the ugly and the beautiful side by side and it feels like life.
We see a lot of young black men dying at the hands of police violence and it's exhausting and hard to picture an alternative. Without being able to see an alternative, we accept, as difficult as it might be, that this is the way things are, this is how they have to be, this is how they've been.
Smith, without ever disregarding his history, shows us what paradise might look like.
And it's black, and it's beautiful.
I don't like to compare artworks because it feels unkind to both artists, but this collection feels like the Oscar-winning film Moonlight in poetry form.
The way he writes is exceptional and effortless, except it's come from a place of effort so it truly means something. Smith takes a queer, black young men, boys 'as brown as rye bread' and creates a paradise for them, so that when they die at the hands of police violence, they can be loved, cherished and honoured in the way they deserve.
Except it's not heaven, because the boys never died. They live on, eternally, never to be forgotten. All of their toxic masculinity washed away.
Smith uses his poetry to discuss some things that the queer community has long neglected, racism on Grindr, HIV diagnoses and writes them into being. With the ugly and the beautiful side by side and it feels like life.
We see a lot of young black men dying at the hands of police violence and it's exhausting and hard to picture an alternative. Without being able to see an alternative, we accept, as difficult as it might be, that this is the way things are, this is how they have to be, this is how they've been.
Smith, without ever disregarding his history, shows us what paradise might look like.
And it's black, and it's beautiful.
One of the pengest & the gayest poetry books I’ve read.
Wow! I love Danez Smith’s poetry, the way they’re able to take pain & make it poetry. Keep up the good work, fam!
Not a easy book of poetry but it is actual and full of meanings about being black today