{"product_id":"danez-smith-homie-2020-paperback","title":"Danez Smith: Homie [2020] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness,' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In its cutting compassion, \u003ci\u003eHomie \u003c\/i\u003eis as much a celebration of loved ones' lives as it is a lament for their loss, equally a war cry for kinship and the burial dirge after the battle' Amanda Gorman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith's highly anticipated collection \u003ci\u003eHomie\u003c\/i\u003e is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time where both are scarce. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is written for friends: for Danez's friends, for yours.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire, piloted by a writer who never loses their way\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Danez","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53399677501779,"sku":"9781784743055","price":15.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53399677534547,"sku":"XV81784743055","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/smith-danez-danez-smith-homie-2020-paperback-1231129741.jpg?v=1775252437","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/danez-smith-homie-2020-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}