| Description |
88 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Summer, somewhere -- Dear white America -- Dinosaurs in the hood -- It won't be a bullet -- Last summer of innocence -- A note on Vaseline -- A note on the phone app that tells me how far i am from other men's mouths -- & even the black guy's profile reads sorry, no black guys -- O nigga O -- ...Nigga -- At the down low house party -- Bare -- Seroconversion -- Fear of needles -- Recklessly -- Elegy with pixels & cum -- Litany with blood all over -- It began right here -- Crown -- Blood hangover -- 1 in 2 -- Every day is a funeral & a miracle -- Not an elegy -- A note on the body -- You're dead, America -- Strange dowry -- Tonight, in Oakland -- Little prayer -- Dream where every black person is standing by the ocean. |
| Summary |
A collection of works that opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by policea place where suspicion, violence and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on earth. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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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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Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Do not call us dead |
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Poems. Selections.
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| ISBN |
9781555977856 |
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1555977855 |
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