Danez Smith

Autor von Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

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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 mehr anzeigen American Poetry. Smith lives in Minneapolis. weniger anzeigen

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Bildnachweis: 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

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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (2017) 509 Exemplare

Homie: Poems (2020) 289 Exemplare

[insert] boy (2014) 88 Exemplare

Black Movie (2015) 84 Exemplare

Bluff: Poems (2024) 5 Exemplare

Black Queer Hoe 1 Exemplar

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) — Mitwirkender — 1,486 Exemplare

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Mitwirkender — 178 Exemplare

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Mitwirkender — 174 Exemplare

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015) — Mitwirkender — 171 Exemplare

The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Mitwirkender — 95 Exemplare

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Mitwirkender — 87 Exemplare

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (2015) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 62 Exemplare

Granta 140: State of Mind (2017) — Mitwirkender — 58 Exemplare

Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (2017) — Mitwirkender — 55 Exemplare

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare

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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2019) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare

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Poetry Magazine Vol. 205 No. 3, December 2014 (2014) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare

Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler (2014) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare

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Rechtmäßiger Name: Smith, Danez
Geburtstag: 1989
Geschlecht: non-binary
Nationalität: USA
Land (für Karte): USA
Geburtsort: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Ausbildung: University of Michigan (MFA)
Berufe: dichter
Organisationen: Dark Noise Collective
Sad Boy Supper Club

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[insert] boy (Kate Tufts Discovery Award) von Danez Smith

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?

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greeniezona | Feb 4, 2024 |

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems von Danez Smith

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 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 20, 2024 |