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Danez Smith

Autor de Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

6+ Obras 979 Miembros 25 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Danez Smith's debut poetry collection, [insert] boy, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Smith has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, and has published poems in Granta, Poetry, and The Best mostrar más American Poetry. Smith lives in Minneapolis. mostrar menos

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Créditos de la imagen: reading at Split This Rock 2018, Washington, D.C. By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68432360

Obras de Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (2017) 509 copias
Homie: Poems (2020) 290 copias
[insert] boy (2014) 89 copias
Black Movie (2015) 85 copias
Bluff: Poems (2024) 5 copias

Obras relacionadas

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) — Contribuidor — 1,490 copias
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contribuidor — 174 copias
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 95 copias
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Contribuidor — 87 copias
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (2015) — Introducción, algunas ediciones62 copias
Granta 140: State of Mind (2017) — Contribuidor — 58 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Smith, Danez
Fecha de nacimiento
1989
Género
non-binary
Nacionalidad
USA
País (para mapa)
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Educación
University of Michigan (MFA)
Ocupaciones
dichter
Organizaciones
Dark Noise Collective
Sad Boy Supper Club

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This is a collection that I knew ahead of time I was going to LOVE and LOVE it I did. The visceralness of the heartbreak and the rage and the possibility and the worship. The openness of it all laid out in front of you, whether it hurts to look at or crinkles your eyes with recognition, with hope. I wrote down a number of poems as favorites, but how better to close than with the line that close the collection:
who says the grace of a black man in motion is not perfect
as a tusk in the sun or a single leaf taking its sweet time to the ground?
… (más)
 
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greeniezona | Feb 4, 2024 |
Wow. Right down to the grizzle and unabashed bare-nakedness of grief. These should be read in the sentencing hearings of the murdering life-hating class.
 
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NeelieOB | 13 reseñas más. | Jan 20, 2024 |
What to say? Very moving. I like their particular ways of capturing joy.
 
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Kiramke | 8 reseñas más. | Oct 24, 2023 |
Sealy Challenge #2!

Loved this collection, very inspiring use of simultaneously casual and profound language in poetry. Such a great voice.
 
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bmanglass | 8 reseñas más. | Aug 31, 2023 |

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Miembros
979
Popularidad
#26,316
Valoración
½ 4.4
Reseñas
25
ISBNs
19
Idiomas
1
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