Homie

Homie by Danez Smith, 84 pages.

Christa, a woman who, I believe, used to work here, blogged about this book several months ago, here: https://ucplbookchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/05/homie.html

Danez Smith describes themself as a black, queer, non-binary, HIV-positive writer and performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez writes with nostalgia and love about a wide range of subjects, love itself, sexuality, and the violence of life. In the poem, "Jumped," with the poem structured to ring around the author, and the violence tempered,

     but what could be safer 
   than a circle of boys
  too afraid of killing you
to kill you?

even in "fall poem" the violence of life is there when the poet  asks "is it possible to ban guns? even from this poem?"

An exciting work, Homie is available in Hoopla, and I am really starting to love listening to books of poetry read by the author. I hope that Hoopla keeps adding modern works.