| 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 | | 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 . - [S.l.] : chatto : [S.l.] : Graywolf Press, 2017 . - 1 vol. (88 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-1-78474-204-1 Langues : Anglais | 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. |
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Don't call us dead
