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Don't call us dead : poems /

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Smith's unflinching poetry addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity. The collection opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Danez (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
Subjects:
African American men > Poetry.
African American men > Violence against > Poetry.
HIV-positive men > Poetry.
Gay men > Poetry.
Transgender people > Poetry.
Gay erotic poetry.
Spoken word poetry.
Minnesota > Poets.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Dear white America
  • Dinosaurs n 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 guy
  • O nigga O
  • ...nigga
  • At the down-low house party
  • Bare
  • Seroconversion
  • Fear of needles
  • Recklessly
  • Elegy with pixels and 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.