{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead-von-danez-smith-1","title":"Don't Call Us Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781555977856\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePoems\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781555977856","offer_id":55142551945541,"sku":"9781555977856","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/836a7668-bc59-4bbe-8572-782ed433e457.jpg?v=1752552324","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/dont-call-us-dead-von-danez-smith-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}