The book “DON’T CALL US DEAD” and the reading from Danez Smith was a very passionate. The title of the book and the picture on the book cover makes the poems in it all make since. Basically the different poems are putting a shining light on racism and how it is for a African American in the United States. “history is what it is. it know what it did” A very profound quote from the author basically saying we know the history but the history will never change it will always be the same no matter how u twist it. Maybe there’s a more deeper meaning where the author is hinting at we should move on from the past knowing that we can never change what has happened.

As the author Danez Smith reads some of these poems in the online reading he is very passionate and ecstatic while reading. It’s almost as he’s acting some of these poems out. In a way you can imagine how these poems can happen in everyday life from the way he’s reading them. For some reason when I think of somebody reading different poems I think of somebody nonchalantly reading a poem but this was the complete opposite. In fact the energy he is reading these poems with almost grabs your attention even if you don’t want to pay attention to what he has to say.

Yes these poems could be looked at as very controversial but these same arguments that the author makes in these poems are arguments that people have everyday. The author gives an inside glimpse on not only how his life is but a bunch of other people as well. The author is speaking up for people who are going through the same thing he has and is going through that’s why these poems will connect well with lots of people. I like the author is not scared to voice his opinion and while reading these poems he is very animated. To me that shows that he is confident in what he is saying and having no fears of what somebody else might have to say about it.