Homie: Poems

Celebrated poet Danez Smith (Don't Call Us Dead) delivers a rapturous cry for all the beloved people in and out of their life in the profoundly moving collection Homie. Smith writes with both power and precision, and their poetic forms are as diverse as their topics. Homie teems with stream-of-conscious prose poetry and, in equal measure, gleams with lapidary stanzas of more formalized verse. Smith's personal style mixes modern slang with gorgeous imagery, resulting in verse as colorful and fanciful as Pablo Neruda but also savvy, down-to-earth, close to the heart.

Smith's Blackness and queerness frame struggles and larger questions of kinship, and they invoke friends, lovers, family members, other minority groups and even strangers. Homie doesn't gloss over the oppression Black people have suffered at the hands of white people. But neither does the poet slam the door on the possibility of love and reconciliation. This collection is filled with passion and humanity and demonstrates why Smith has been called one of the best poets of their generation. --Scott Neuffer, writer, poet, editor of trampset

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