Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books, 2014. 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America.
"The poems of INSERT] BOY have need of the body—desire it and lament its mortality—but over and again they assert Smith's seemingly religious belief that every sound the body makes, every word and wail, is only possible through connection to some other plane of existence....
Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies.
Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston ...
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith Hallelujah is an understatement (Patricia Smith)
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...
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith Hallelujah is an understatement (Patricia Smith)
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