Homie: Poems, Danez Smith

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Homie: Poems
Paperback – January 21, 2020
by Danez Smith (Author)
Remainder – offered at half the cover price

A finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Image Award, Homie is Danez Smith’s explosive, big-hearted ode to the friendships that save us—especially when the world refuses to. Written in the wake of losing a beloved friend, these poems search fiercely for the joy, warmth, laughter, and chosen family that make survival not only possible but radiant.

With unmatched musicality and emotional agility, Smith explores what it means to live in a body shaped by Blackness, queerness, and illness in a nation marked by violence, isolation, and inequity. Yet from this landscape of grief and threat emerges a book overflowing with tenderness. Smith celebrates the friends who show up at the door with food, gossip, comfort, and resurrection; the friends who hold space for silliness and rage; the friends who know you better than you know yourself.

Part elegy, part love letter, part battle cry, Homie is an exuberant hymn to the sustaining power of community. These poems insist—through humor, vulnerability, and dazzling linguistic invention—that connection is a lifeline and joy is a form of resistance. This is a book written for Danez’s friends, and for yours, and for anyone who has ever been held up by the love that refuses to let go.

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