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Homie
Homie | Danez Smith
"& colin kaepernick is my president, who kneels on the air bent toward a branch, throwing apples down to the children & vets & rihanna is my president, walking out of global summits with wine glass in hand, our taxes returned in gold to dust our faces into coins & my mama is my president, her grace stunts on amazing, brown hands breaking brown bread over mouths of the hungry until there are none unfed & my grandma is my president & her cabinet is her cabinet cause she knows to trust what the pan knowshow the skillet wins the war" from 'my president' Danez Smith is our President. A mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith's 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.
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DimeryRene
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DimeryRene
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Reading poetry on audio is 100% the way to go!

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JacintaMCarter
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#2023Book46
Danez Smith might be one of my new favorite poets. They have a way with words that hits deep and hard, and I highly recommend the audio versions that they narrate themself.

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Sydneypaige
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The loss of friends, weaved and explored through humor and love and reverence. There‘s pain written about and demands to be witnessed, but not in an overwhelming way that makes you feel like you need to step away from the book. It‘s just honest. I love anything written about adult friendships so I loved this.

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Kenyazero
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Danez Smith‘s poetry is reflective of life, and takes a hard look at racism, homophobia, and living with aids. There are a lot of striking lines in this book. I listened to the audio, so although I don‘t think I got as much of the poems‘ contents, it was fun listening to Danez perform his work. I also appreciated the intro explaining the real title of this collection and why he called it Homie. #Poetry #LGBTQ

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jenniferw88
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4.5 🌟. Enjoyed the shorter poems.

#bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
#bookofpoetry #booked2021 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Also the first book I've read from @bookriot 's #gettbr recommendations, which is quite exciting!

Cinfhen Ohhh, that is cool!! I always think that I should try that service 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y
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jenniferw88
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#bookspin is tagged, #doublespin is The Red Tent. Both books are for #booked2021!

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks great!!! 3y
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elizabethlk
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Danez Smith is one of the best poets out there right now and Homie (their most recent collection) is fantastic. I had really high hopes as I've loved their work in the past, and this definitely met and surpassed them. Highly recommended.

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Danez Smith is one of the most exciting poets writing today and this collection secures their place as a major poet of the time. The theme of friendship and the power of those bonds is at the center of a work that discusses all of life - love, hate, sickness, death, happiness, sorrow. Highly recommended.

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sarahlandis
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A beautiful book of poems to start 2021. Themes of race, class, and sexuality. Favorites were Dogs! Sometimes I Wish I Felt The Side Effects, What Was Said At The Bus Stop, and Depression Food.

“i breathe you. in you, i nourish. strangle your name out my mouth if you could but you are a smoke i can swallow, fire rich with something thicker, honey begat by flames, the wet of burned skin. your name is honeydew glass, i hunger & bleed for it.”

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KendallHershey
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As I left Cali three days ago on a roadtrip to meet up with my family for the holidays, this felt timely. #poetry #poetrymatters

BethM This is beautiful! Speaks to my midwestern soul! 4y
TheSpineView Beautiful! 😍 4y
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Kenyazero
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Every week, I highlight #LGBTQAuthors as part of #TheRainbowShelf 🏳️‍🌈 Author and poet Danez Smith has won multiple literary awards, including the Lambda Literary Award. Their work has been selected as a Boston Globe Best Poetry Book, and they are co-host on the Poetry Foundation's podcast VS. #LGBTQ #QueerAuthors #LGBTQVoices #Poetry

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AlizaApp
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A really lovely poetry collection that touches on race, class and sexuality. I also really liked Smith‘s first collection.

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AlizaApp
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Some really lovely lines in this poetry collection.

Nute Haven‘t gotten to this collection yet, but I was really enjoyed the previous collection 4y
AlizaApp @Nute yes I liked the previous one too! 4y
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MsLeah8417
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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PMMREADS
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#qooc #poetry #audiobook #shortread #powerful Danez reads the poems with such feeling and energy. I saw him read in person a couple of years ago. Danez is a great poet.

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UnRuLee
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Danez Smith is easily one of my favorite current poets. They have a way of catching you off guard with brilliant turns of phrase and heart-wrenching left turns into the realities of racism, homophobia, suicide, and living with HIV. (I also just discovered they use they/them pronouns, which makes me WILDLY happy.) I can‘t recommend their work enough.

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sakeriver
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‪What a goddamn gorgeous book. I think Smith‘s poems have always had fire, have always been personal. But this feels like something new from them. There‘s so much joy and so much community here. I got pretty emotional reading some of these poems.‬

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sakeriver
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Lindy
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i‘m not a mother, but i know what it is
to nurse a thing you want to kill

& can‘t. you learn to love it. yes.
i love my sweet virus. it is my proof

of life, my toxic angel, wasted utopia
what makes my blood my blood.

#queer #poetry
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Lindy
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… no one
wants to hear a poem about fall; much
prefer the fallen
body, something easy to mourn

#LGBTQ #poetry

Butterfinger That looks like a Japanese Maple. What a beautiful picture and poetry. 5y
Lindy @Butterfinger Thanks. I took the photo in a garden in Vancouver last fall. The poem switches from falling leaves to bodies felled by bullets; it‘s a powerful piece. 5y
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gossamerchild
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😲 😍 😓 I'm not sure what else to say about this short collection (is it really short? 84 pages of poetry seems like an awful lot to me). I don't know enough about poetry to have the right vocabulary to describe this book, but damn. It is a powerful book. Loved it. Might need to buy it in order to do it more justice. Fantastic piece of writing. Highly recommended.

#poetry #librarybook

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So glad I decided to try something new and purchase the audiobook version of this collection.

All you have to do is follow his IG account to understand why I needed to listen to him read his work.

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Redwritinghood
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I found great depth of emotion in this poetry collection. The poems centered mainly around love and appreciation of those close to you, whether by family, friendship, or just kinship through shared experiences or identities. There was both a strength and vulnerability to the language here, and many of the poems ended with what felt like a gut punch of recognition or understanding. 5⭐️

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rachelm
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Got this new release in the mail today! If you want more poetry in your life, stack this one. So excited.

rachelm @readordierachel oh! Stacking that now 5y
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Liberty
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My book mail‘s so bright, I gotta wear shades. 💚😎💚

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