{"product_id":"bxosbd-dont-call-us-dead-poems-9781555977856","title":"Don't Call Us Dead: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.\"--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43497872228558,"sku":"9781555977856","price":39.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781555977856_a.png?v=1777532174","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/bxosbd-dont-call-us-dead-poems-9781555977856","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}