{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead-poems-danez-smith","title":"Don't Call Us Dead: Poems;  Danez Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp\u003eSeptember 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDanez Smith is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e[insert] boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2014, YesYes Books), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Their 2nd collection will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. Their work has published \u0026amp; featured widely including in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlavity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They are a 2014 Ruth Lilly - Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, and a recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. They are a 2-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing 2nd in 2014. They edit for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u0026amp; are a founding member of 2 collectives, Dark Noise and Sad Boy Supper Club. They live in the midwest most of the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDanez was featured in American Academy of Poet's Emerging Writers Series by National Book Award Finalist Patricia Smith. Like her, Danez bridges the poetics of the stage to that of the page. Danez's work transcends arbitrary boundaries to present work that is gripping, dismantling of oppression constructs, and striking on the human heart. Often centered around intersections of race, class, sexuality, faith, and social justice, Danez uses rhythm, fierce raw power, and image to re-imagine the world as takes it apart in their work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536195707202,"sku":"","price":10.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/dontcallus.jpg?v=1689118314","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/dont-call-us-dead-poems-danez-smith","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}