Don't Call us Dead by Danez Smith Keston Sutherland is a book of transgressed

is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers

But they are more than that

First poet of the world for some things

their other worlds

pivoting around a central sequence called 'Genesis'

Don't Call us Dead by Danez Smith Keston Sutherland is a book of transgressedAward winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Dont Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality, the dangers experienced in skin and body