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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
African American men -- Poetry.
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African American men -- Violence against -- Poetry.
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HIV-positive men -- Poetry.
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Gay men -- Poetry.
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Transgender people -- Poetry.
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Gay erotic poetry.
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Spoken word poetry.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Danez.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684577378 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684577373 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12623872 |
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