![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’s avoidance of capital letters (except proper nouns) throughout Homie and their manipulation of punctuation also speak to urgency, the now-ness of survival.Urgency is also expressed in the shape Smith gives many of their poems.i whisper to them tender tender bridge bridge but they say bitch ain’t no time, make me a weapon!” That urgency is present in nearly all the poems in Homie and described explicitly in the opening lines of “my poems”: “my poems are fed up & getting violent. If you’re alive in America right now, you’re seeing urgency in the streets of our cities.Far from an official review, they represent first impressions and provide some context for what I brought to the reading of the text.ģ4 of 100: Homie by Danez Smith (2020, Graywolf Press) ![]() These notes are part of my “ read 100 poetry books in 12-ish months” effort. ![]()
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