English Reading Club: "Don’t call us dead" by Danez Smith

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If you enjoy literature in English and would like to meet with other people to talk about books, maybe our English Reading Club is for you!
We provide a book every month to all the readers, who meet at the library once they have read it to talk about it. Sessions are moderated by a professional who provides topics for discussion.

Practice your English + Enjoy literature + Share your views with other readers = English Reading Club!

The best way to improve your English and have fun with a book in your hands.

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This month we read: Don’t call us dead / Danez Smith

Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t 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 and blood—and a diagnosis of HIV positive. “Some of us are killed / in pieces,” Smith writes, “some of us all at once.” Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—“Dear White America”—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.