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Homie by Danez Smith

5 reviews

becksusername's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Racism, Violence, and Homophobia

yellow_star's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Overall this book is basically Angry Poems, and an aggressive theme. But most of it is fair. Like the line "poeming some men's hands off,  they know what they did" (paraphrase not exact words) is aggressive but fair. There is a poem in the beginning about a whole group beating one kid up though so maybe don't have young kids read this. 

There's also themes of racism, bigotry, etc. There are also the  related slurs. 

The nature poems are so fresh! I love the completely new to me imagery for nature.

The poverty poems are also completely relatable. 

I'm not a huge fan of poems that jump all over the place like a lot of modern literary poetry does, but each poem is usually about some topic and mostly continues the same conversation. There's still a little bit of chaotic unrelated subject changes but very little. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Physical abuse, Body horror, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Gore, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Classism, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Slavery

rlgreen91's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a gorgeous, gorgeous collection of poems.  A dear friend gave this to me for Christmas, and since I had a bit of time between book club selections, I decided to pick it up, with goal of reading a poem a day. I went into it with no expectations, which was a great idea. I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled by the many ways Smith conveyed and depicted friendship and community and grief in the poems.  If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be "acknowledgements," and "self-portrait as '90s R&B video" was the most fun to read out loud.

Revisiting "fall poem" on this Sunday October evening is the best way to cap off this collection.  I'm already looked forward to the next thing I read by Smith. 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Cursing

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent and Medical content

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Mental illness, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Drug use, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism, and Blood

ocean's review

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Homie is the feeling of home written in poetry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Moderate: Drug use