![]() ![]() “The radiance of Homie arrives like a shock, like found money, like a flower fighting through concrete. Sophia Kaufman, Book Culture, New York, NY ![]() Homie carries a kind of weight no one collection should have to, yet each poem is a reminder that there are infinite ways to love through ache and cut through anguish. “It takes a certain grace to hold inconceivable amounts of pain and the fiercest kinds of joy in your heart at once, and to write about it with the elegance, clarity, humor that Danez Smith does is something else entirely. Luis Lopez, Moon Palace Books, Minneapolis, MN Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List It can be like a video game heart for you, and who doesn’t need an extra heart?” Pick this book up and carry it with you everywhere. Those emotions that raise up too much anger or grief - all of them are alive again and seen and spoken for with utmost care and a tremendously welcome sense of humor. ![]() “In their third collection, Danez Smith shakes to life the parts of people that have gone to sleep waiting for this time in the world to be over. ![]()
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