Don't Call Us Dead -

Danez Smith

Penguin

2017

88 páginas

2h 56m

ISBN-13: 9781784742041

Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead 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. Don't Call Us Dead 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.

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5 (Perfeito)

i wanted to listen an audiobook while i was doing uni stuff, so i chose this one. i'm so thankful i did, at some point i couldn't even work anymore, i had to keep listening and dedicate all my attention to this beautiful, amazing and necessary book. i loved this experience so much! i recommend this book to everyone, it's worth of it.