Homie

"There is a propulsive energy permeating the poems in Danez Smith’s Homie – a gnawing, gut-wrenching fire that bends form to its will to create new ways of looking at language. “my poems are fed up & getting violent./ I whisper to them tender tender bridge bridge but they say bitch ain’t no time, make me a weapon!” Through the use of the fragment and the coordinating conjunction made symbolic signifier, Smith embeds the line with both the declamatory pause and a forward momentum that moves, in carefully crafted arrangement, to a volta couched in wonderfully resonant images and ideas."

"Homie, by Danez Smith, an absolute joy of a book."