Titre :	Don't call us dead : poems
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Danez Smith, Auteur
Editeur :	chatto
Année de publication :	2017
Autre Editeur :	Graywolf Press
Importance :	1 vol. (88 p.)
Présentation :	couv. ill. en coul.
Format :	24 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-1-78474-204-1
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:821 English poetry
Mots-clés :	poems
Résumé :	Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. 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. 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." Don't Call Us Dead 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.

Don't call us dead : poems [texte imprimé] / Danez Smith, Auteur . - chatto : Graywolf Press, 2017 . - 1 vol. (88 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm.
ISBN : 978-1-78474-204-1
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:821 English poetry
Mots-clés :	poems
Résumé :	Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. 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. 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." Don't Call Us Dead 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.