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*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018*
*A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017*
*A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018*
‘[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy’ The New Yorker
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking 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 an HIV-positive diagnosis.
‘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 an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.
Milk and Honey 
States of Happiness 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Strong in the Rain 
The Genre of Silence 
Poems of the Dead and Undead (Everyman Pocket Poets) 
Isn't Forever 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve 
Force Movements 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Floss 
The Silvering