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A review by makz_marie
Homie by Danez Smith
3.0
three stars feels like I'm calling this book a failure but what I'm actually doing is admitting my own failure to like poetry enough, because I don't read it a lot because I don't "Get It" or whatever, so I mostly just struggle through occasionally nodding when I recognize the importance of a line here or there and then getting cast out immediately back to sea getting lost in the next few lines because I can't tell if they're an extended metaphor or an extremely specific anecdote told in the vaguest terms possible or what.
having said that, Homie made me really wish I Got poetry more, and I think maybe if I keep reading poetry and learn to get better at appreciating it I'll revisit here someday and it will hit a lot harder. a lot of these poems filled me with this deep-down yearning to Get It, sincerely get it, and even my uncultured ass could really appreciated "jumped!" and "acknowledgements" and "all the good dick lives in Brooklyn Park."
having said that, Homie made me really wish I Got poetry more, and I think maybe if I keep reading poetry and learn to get better at appreciating it I'll revisit here someday and it will hit a lot harder. a lot of these poems filled me with this deep-down yearning to Get It, sincerely get it, and even my uncultured ass could really appreciated "jumped!" and "acknowledgements" and "all the good dick lives in Brooklyn Park."