Homie: Poems Binding:Paperback Everybody Come Alive

Everybody Come Alive

Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot

no mustaches

how the Black vernacular

She just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet

Homie: Poems Binding:Paperback Everybody Come AliveFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smiths magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smiths 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