Homie, Danez Smith
Homie, Danez Smith
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Homie
Poems

Author: Danez Smith

Narrator: Danez Smith

Unabridged: 1 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/21/2020


Synopsis

Danez Smith is our president

Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez's friends and for you and for yours.

About Danez Smith

Danez Smith is the author of Don't Call Us Dead, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. They live in Minneapolis.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane on November 11, 2019

Homie (but really that isn't this book's title), is a love letter to friendship, the push and pull of it, the give and take, the good and bad. So many of these poems are unexpectedly moving. Warm. Smith plays with form in several poems. They bring an incredible level of depth and craft to writing ab......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 22, 2020

Loved the unapologetic blackness and queerness of this poetry collection. I appreciate Danez Smith’s centering of friendship in this collection and their confident, sensitive approach to addressing issues of racism, femmephobia, and other forms of social injustice. The caring and connection they hav......more

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm on June 06, 2024

What's so funny about this is that I don't read or know much about poetry, but Danez Smith might be slowly changing my mind about it! Homie is more than just a poetry collection. It is analysis, a critique, a love letter to everything that is Black, everything that is queer, friendship, family, and e......more

Goodreads review by Drew on February 21, 2020

6 out of 5. As vibrant and joyful as the neon cover, even when Smith is dealing with such heavy topics as suicide, HIV status, and the American racist. I don't think I've ever read a poem collection like this and I am so fucking happy it exists in the world. I didn't know how much I needed it, and so......more