Homie Poetry_Gift_Guide Growing up torn between her

Growing up torn between her single Pan Am–stewardess mom and brothel-owning grandmother in 1960s New York City

and well over a hundred hours of personal testimony from GIDS clinicians

and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that

Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow

An epic story of the American wheat harvest

Homie Poetry_Gift_Guide Growing up torn between herFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smiths magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smiths 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 of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges