{"product_id":"9781784742041-dont-call-us-dead","title":"Don't Call Us Dead","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBegins with a sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with safety, love, and longevity they deserved back here on earth. This book also looks at desire, mortality - the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood - and diagnosis of HIV positive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2018*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy’ \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. \u003ci\u003eDon’t Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e 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 an HIV-positive diagnosis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Some of us are killed \/ in pieces,’ Smith writes, ‘some of us all at once.’ \u003ci\u003eDon’t Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451576562038,"sku":"9781784742041","price":10.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32224727.jpg?v=1760463071","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784742041-dont-call-us-dead","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}