Don’t miss this book.”―The Rumpus “Smith’s book is like poetic rapture. Smith uses every tool of craft at a poet’s disposal to deliver powerful, urgent, deliberate, crucial poems. The long-form poem “summer, somewhere” that comprises the book’s first section was awarded the inaugural T. S. Eliot Foundation and Poetry Society of … . Don't Call Us Dead is a startling collection of poems, arresting in its lament & defiance, impressive in its rhythm & s Their poems document the emotional lives of black men, of queer men, of HIV+ men, while they place these thoughts firmly within the human body.

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. . “Don’t Call Us Dead is an historical commentary, a scientific document, a personal narrative, and a formal poetics. Don’t Call Us Dead is full of imagery of rivers (“my veins—rivers of my drowned children/ my blood thick with blue daughters” from “elegy with pixels and cum”), as well as imagery of oceans, tears, and rain. below, boys brown as rye play the dozens & ball, jump. .

-blue water to fly, at least tide, at least spit back a father or two. reviewed by Stephanie Burt. . . “Don’t Call Us Dead is an historical commentary, a scientific document, a personal narrative, and a formal poetics. . .
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. boys become new moons, gum-dark on all sides, beg bruise. . Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017) is Smith’s second, and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. . i won’t get started. Don’t miss this book.”—The Rumpus “Smith’s book is like poetic rapture.

. . from SUMMER, SOMEWHERE somewhere, a sun. Don't Call Us Dead - reviewed by Stephanie Burt. in the air & stay there. Smith uses every tool of craft at a poet’s disposal to deliver powerful, urgent, deliberate, crucial poems.
From Don’t Call Us Deadby Danez Smith. . 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.

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