A review by nichecase
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

5.0

harrowing poetry centred around all types of violence - internal and external, figurative and literal, interpersonal and microbial. even though this is a slim collection, the intensity of the poems (especially when parsed as a whole) led me to put it down a couple times. i never put it down for too long - though the poems are intense, they are also revelatory; everything smith writes is so beautiful despite the subject matter (often because of the subject) that it forces a reassessment of old beliefs and priorities.