Danez Smith

Auteur van 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 toon meer American Poetry. Smith lives in Minneapolis. toon minder

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Fotografie: 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

Werken van Danez Smith

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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (2017) 510 exemplaren

Homie: Poems (2020) 291 exemplaren

[insert] boy (2014) 89 exemplaren

Black Movie (2015) 85 exemplaren

Bluff: Poems (2024) 5 exemplaren

Black Queer Hoe 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam: Smith, Danez
Geboortedatum: 1989
Geslacht: non-binary
Nationaliteit: USA
Land (voor op de kaart): USA
Geboorteplaats: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Opleiding: University of Michigan (MFA)
Beroepen: dichter
Organisaties: Dark Noise Collective
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[insert] boy (Kate Tufts Discovery Award) door 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?

… (meer)

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greeniezona | Feb 4, 2024 |

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems door 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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