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Homie (2020)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive "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."--
- ISBN:
- 9781644450109
- Length:
- 96 pages
Genres: poetry
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Loved it
Loved itthis is like captivating it completely blew me away on every single page this is about the friends we have it's also about a friend that dana's lost it's full of so much love and hope but also really hits on so many hard elements and i am positive i'm going to continue to read and love dennis's work like from here on out forever this is just superb
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