Don't call us dead : poems /

Don't call us dead : poems /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Smith, Danez, author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Imprint:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	88 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
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. Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11329945

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Varying Form of Title:	Do not call us dead
ISBN:	1555977855 9781555977856
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.

Table of 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
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
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