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    Homie: Poems
    Homie: Poems
    Homie: Poems
    Audiobook1 hour

    Homie: Poems

    Written by Danez Smith

    Narrated by Danez Smith

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJan 21, 2020
    ISBN9781684577392
    Homie: Poems
    Author

    Danez Smith

    Danez Smith is the author of [INSERT] BOY (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His 2nd collection, Don't Call Us Dead, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. He is also the author of two chapbooks, hands on ya knees and black movie, winner of the Button Poetry Prize. His work has published and featured widely including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, and Ploughshares.

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    • 5/5
      Truly profound and dynamic - ancestral, ecological, queer, cutting, relevant, comedic, comforting and affirming.
    • 5/5
      Poems as powerful as the voice who narrates them. Audiobook is the only way to go with this collection.