Research Catalog

Title

Homie : poems / Danez Smith.

Author

Smith, Danez

Publication

• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

84 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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."--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• My nig : poems

Subject

• 2010-2019
• African American men > Poetry
• African American men > Violence against > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry > 2010-2019
• American poetry
• African American men

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Spoken word poetry.

Note

• "note on the title: this book was titled 'homie' because i don't want non-black people to say 'my nig' out loud. this book is really titled 'my nig.' - page [v]

Contents

My president -- Niggas! -- How many of us have them? -- Jumped! -- Saw a video of a gang of bees swarming a hornet who killed their bee-homie so I called to say I love you -- Fall poem -- Rose -- I'm going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense -- The flower who bloomed thru the fence in grandmama's yard -- In lieu of a poem, I'd like to say -- Dogs! -- Ode to gold teeth -- On faggotness -- Self-portrait as '90's R&B video -- My bitch! -- Sometimes I wish I felt the side effects -- Say it with your whole black mouth -- Shout out to my niggas in Mexico -- White niggas -- What was said at the bus stop -- I didn't like you when I met you -- For Andrew -- 1989-2016 -- Depression food -- Undetectable -- All the good dick lives in Brooklyn Park -- Broke n rice -- C.R.E.A.M. -- Old confession & new -- Gay cancer -- Happy hour -- Waiting on you to die so I can be myself -- The fat one with the switch -- My poems -- Trees! -- My nig.

Call Number

Sc E 20-547

ISBN

• 9781644450109
• 1644450100

LCCN

2019933271

OCLC

1102165544

Author

Smith, Danez, author.

Title

Homie : poems / Danez Smith.

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

2010-2019

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-547