Danez Smith

Auteur de Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

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A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus American Poetry. Smith lives in Minneapolis. afficher moins

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Crédit image: 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

Œuvres de Danez Smith

Populaires Récent

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

Homie: Poems (2020) 290 exemplaires

[insert] boy (2014) 89 exemplaires

Black Movie (2015) 85 exemplaires

Bluff: Poems (2024) 5 exemplaires

Black Queer Hoe 1 exemplaire

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

The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Contributeur — 87 exemplaires

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (2015) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 62 exemplaires

Granta 140: State of Mind (2017) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires

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

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires

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Poetry Magazine Vol. 205 No. 3, December 2014 (2014) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires

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Nom légal: Smith, Danez
Date de naissance: 1989
Sexe: non-binary
Nationalité: USA
Pays (pour la carte): USA
Lieu de naissance: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Études: University of Michigan (MFA)
Professions: dichter
Organisations: Dark Noise Collective
Sad Boy Supper Club

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Critiques

[insert] boy (Kate Tufts Discovery Award) par 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?

… (plus d'informations)

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greeniezona | Feb 4, 2024 |

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems par 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 autres critiques | Jan 20, 2024 |