More Beautiful Than the Dead

By: Bellinger, Danny

In More Beautiful Than the Dead, Bellinger crafts bruising and beautiful moments of black life into an intimate and filmic songbook.

"Danny Bellinger's long lyric lines create a bright score of memory and music. Drawing from the pressurized socio political atmosphere of the 1960's, with its war and racial violence, these poems have the heft of history at their baseline, but what catches the ear most is Bellinger's complex meditations on beauty, art, survival, grief, and love-all rooted in the tenderness of familial portraits and personal revelations. In this chapbook, the past is not only alive: it is still singing."

--Danielle Cadena Deulen, author of Desire Museum

Danny Bellinger is a poet, writer and Assistant Professor at Georgia Highlands College in Atlanta, GA., and is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University. He is a 2021 and

2024 Community of Writers Summer Poetry Fellow and recipient of their Lucille Clifton and C.D. Wright Memorial Scholarships. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in

Community of Writers Poetry Review, Black Renaissance Noire, LIT Mag.(online), Old Red Kimono, Black Sunflowers Poetry, Obsidian, Callaloo, and others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1068464615
• ISBN13: 9781068464614
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Black Sunflowers Poetry Press
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"