{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead","title":"Don't Call Us Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2018*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy’ \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking 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 an HIV-positive diagnosis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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 an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32092541026387,"sku":"9781784742041","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784742041.jpg?v=1777045568","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dont-call-us-dead","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}