Part of Your America
Kevin Okoth: Danez Smith and Jericho Brown, 19 November 2020
“... Danez Smith
’s prose poem ‘Dear White America’, published in Don’t Call Us Dead (2017), brought Allen Ginsberg’s ‘America’ into the present and gave it a more urgent register: ‘we did not build your prisons (though we did & we fill them too). we did not ask to be part of your America … i can’t stand your ground ... ”
