Homie

<p><b>'A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship sex and blackness' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>'In its cutting compassion <i>Homie </i>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 Gorman</b><br><br>A mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship Danez Smith's highly anticipated collection <i>Homie</i> 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.<br><br><b>Part friendship diary part bright elegy part war cry Homie is written for friends: for Danez's friends for yours.</b><br><b><br>'</b><b>This is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire piloted by a writer who never loses their way</b>' <b><i>New York Times</i></b></p>