Don't Call us Dead by Danez Smith Keston Sutherland Located in a menacing

Located in a menacing

which views familial trauma through a storytelling lens

Robben Island

their other worlds

is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers

Don't Call us Dead by Danez Smith Keston Sutherland Located in a menacingAward 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