{"product_id":"9781555979775","title":"Don't Call Us Dead: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking 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 a diagnosis of HIV  positive. “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 America—“Dear  White America”—where every day is too often a funeral and not often  enough a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128609194224,"sku":"9781555979775","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979775_p0.jpg?v=1763755725","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979775","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}