Danez Smith: 3 books

Danez Smith is our president 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...

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection **“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”—**The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated...

These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way—saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing...