Don't Call Us Dead
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Beschreibung
>"[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy."--The New Yorker
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.
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you’re dead, america
This absolutely destroyed me. Growing up gay and black in the US. Trump getting elected. Things are bad And then they are worse I am so sorry for everyone that has to go through this stupidity of racism and cruelty. I am broken. These words were haunting but so so so NEEDED to be heard by the world!!! prediction: the cop will walk prediction: the boy will still be dead
I didn't understand or 'got' every single poem in this collection, but that's okay. Up and foremost this book isn't for me. I hoped I still learned something from it. The sections I loved were so incredibly powerful and important that the ones that weren't for me didn't hinder my love for this collection. My absolute favorite sections were "summer, somewhere" and "everyday is a funeral & a miracle" The other sections I loved were: "dear white america", "dinosaurs in the hood", "... nigga", "crown" and "strange dowry"
Beschreibung
>"[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy."--The New Yorker
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.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
you’re dead, america
This absolutely destroyed me. Growing up gay and black in the US. Trump getting elected. Things are bad And then they are worse I am so sorry for everyone that has to go through this stupidity of racism and cruelty. I am broken. These words were haunting but so so so NEEDED to be heard by the world!!! prediction: the cop will walk prediction: the boy will still be dead
I didn't understand or 'got' every single poem in this collection, but that's okay. Up and foremost this book isn't for me. I hoped I still learned something from it. The sections I loved were so incredibly powerful and important that the ones that weren't for me didn't hinder my love for this collection. My absolute favorite sections were "summer, somewhere" and "everyday is a funeral & a miracle" The other sections I loved were: "dear white america", "dinosaurs in the hood", "... nigga", "crown" and "strange dowry"