Homie by Danez Smith (English) Paperback Book

Description: Homie by Danez Smith and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness, GuardianA mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smiths highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time where both are scarce. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The highly anticipated new collection from 2018 Forward Prize winner and poetic star, Danez Smith.A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness, GuardianIn its cutting compassion, Homie is as much a celebration of loved ones lives as it is a lament for their loss, equally a war cry for kinship and the burial dirge after the battle Amanda GormanA mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smiths highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time where both are scarce. 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 written for friends- for Danezs friends, for yours.This is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire, piloted by a writer who never loses their way New York Times Author Biography Danez Smith is the author of Homie (2020) and Dont Call Us Dead (2018), which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Four Quartets Prize awarded by the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the National Book Award. They live in Minneapolis. Review Id like to invent or order up new adjectives to describe the startling originality and ambition of Smiths work. Id like to unwrap some brand-new words, oddly pronged words, to convey their wary intelligence and open heart. Instead, I can only yoke together antonyms to convey anything of their particular vibration: their joy-dread, hunger-contentment, holy-profanity... The radiance of Homie arrives like a shock, like found money, like a flower fighting through concrete... This is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire, piloted by a writer who never loses their way. That compass — provided by friends, influences, collaborators — stays steady. -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times *A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness. * Guardian *Danez Smith has always been the most talented voice of our generation, but its here, in their third collection, that their virtuosic abilities are matched by the ambitiousness of their heart. Here, theyve built a table big enough to hold all of it: the small shames that accompany grief, the ecstasy of chosen kinship, "your people, my people, all that hashappened / to us" -- Franny Choi, author of Soft ScienceThis book reads as gospel, as righteous text that carves a religion out of friendship... Blessed be Danez Smith, for allowing us that closeness... Smith holds genius in them, and we are lucky that they choose to share it with usso abundantly -- Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come For UsHomie is how we survive – in verse... For Danez, friendship is a forest ripe with foliage and possibility... They offer us poems of seed and breath, charging us to reimagine the world as inhabitable and safe in this skin and these bodies beckoning us back to dirt -- Tish JonesHomie is deeply moving and funny… [and] a step change from Smiths earlier work -- Lanre Bakare * Guardian *The president of black voices in poetry. Smith uses their new collection to explore the ideas of friendship, intimacy and comfort * Stylist *I return to this collection to remind myself of what is possible on the page, the joy, the rigour, the necessity of a strut. Smith writes towards the abundant and the difficult and makes something that is rare - a piece of art that refuses self-consciousness and is exactly what it wants to be -- Raven Leilani * Week *A great collection of poetry about friendship, sex and Blackness. Its rare for me to go back to poetry but I come back to this again and again... Its beautiful -- Travis Alabanza * Dazed *A collection to read as we reflect on the challenges 2020 has presented to us all -- Maria Crawford * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *Homie felt like a book for this year as we learned to look after one another in new ways -- eljka Maroševic * White Review *[Homie] filled me with pure joy. It is a book as inventive, funny, sad, warm and sharp as any Ive ever read -- Yaa Gyasi * Techregister, *Books of the Year* *Much of Smiths early success came through the slam poetry scene... Homie makes the case for Smith as a poet of the page -- Kevin Okoth * London Review of Books * Promotional The highly anticipated new collection from 2018 Forward Prize winner and poetic star, Danez Smith. Review Text Id like to invent or order up new adjectives to describe the startling originality and ambition of Smiths work. Id like to unwrap some brand-new words, oddly pronged words, to convey their wary intelligence and open heart . Instead, I can only yoke together antonyms to convey anything of their particular vibration: their joy-dread, hunger-contentment, holy-profanity ... The radiance of Homie arrives like a shock, like found money, like a flower fighting through concrete... This is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire, piloted by a writer who never loses their way . That compass -- provided by friends, influences, collaborators -- stays steady. Review Quote Id like to invent or order up new adjectives to describe the startling originality and ambition of Smiths work. Id like to unwrap some brand-new words, oddly pronged words, to convey their wary intelligence and open heart . Instead, I can only yoke together antonyms to convey anything of their particular vibration: their joy-dread, hunger-contentment, holy-profanity ... The radiance of Homie arrives like a shock, like found money, like a flower fighting through concrete... This is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire, piloted by a writer who never loses their way . That compass -- provided by friends, influences, collaborators -- stays steady. Promotional "Headline" The highly anticipated new collection from 2018 Forward Prize winner and poetic star, Danez Smith. Details ISBN1784743054 Author Danez Smith Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2020 ISBN-10 1784743054 ISBN-13 9781784743055 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-02-20 Imprint Chatto & Windus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Position Department of Psychology Pages 96 DEWEY 811.6 Language English UK Release Date 2020-02-20 AU Release Date 2020-02-20 NZ Release Date 2020-02-20 Illustrator Andy Price Birth 1939 Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA Qualifications Ph.D. Alternative 9781473581319 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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