Danez Smith is here with PBS Books at AWP 2018 to talk with us about his book of poetry, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems. Danez has won numerous awards and fellowships and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2017.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
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.
poetry, African Americans, erotic poetry, gay men, transgender people
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