Homie poems
"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 genero...
| Main Author: | Smith, Danez (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2020]
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Table of 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.