{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead-poems","title":"Don't Call Us Dead: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. \u003ci\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1555977855\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781555977856\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Smith, Danez\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2017)","offer_id":46080541262021,"sku":"9781555977856","price":15.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781555977856.jpg?v=1776038186","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/dont-call-us-dead-poems","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}