[Las] Mobi Homie
By Danez Smith
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.
