{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead-poems-9781555977856","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanez Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003e[insert] boy\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Smith has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the Poetry Foundation, and lives in Minneapolis.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50592779272466,"sku":"9781555977856","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1aded6ab-8ca0-4013-80b5-019953c8de14.jpg?v=1732107751","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dont-call-us-dead-poems-9781555977856","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}