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Imagining the Anthropocene: Danez Smith’s “summer, somewhere”

Imagining the Anthropocene: Danez Smith’s “summer, somewhere”

Danez Smith’s second book of poems, Don’t Call Us Dead, takes up the project of rehumanizing black lives, reshaping lament into forward-looking prophecy. The collection’s opening epic poem, “summer, somewhere,” acts as a book of re-creation, turning premature mortality into a revived, embodied love drawn from the earth itself.