Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Dear White America, Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection of poems that confronts, praises, and rebukes America.

Award-winning poet Danez Smith imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with 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." This collection is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the experiences of black Americans and the systemic injustices they face every day.

Don't miss out on this powerful and thought-provoking work.