Danez Smith’s ‘Don’t Call Us Dead’ contains one of the most breathtaking poems you’ll read all year

October 4, 2017 Posted By: Leave a comment
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Midway through their poem, "summer, somewhere," Danez Smith offers a vision of utopia: "Paradise is a world where everything/ is sanctuary & nothing is a gun."

The poem, the opening of Smith's National Book Award-nominated collection Don't Call Us Dead, is a 25-page...

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