6/29/2023 0 Comments Homie danez![]() ![]() In Dan Chiasson’s review of that collection for the New Yorker, he praised Smith’s “restorative imagination,” noting that “summer, somewhere,” a gut-wrenching and kaleidoscopic remembrance of murdered black boys both well-known and unacknowledged, quarrels with a history that is “like a stubborn child: nobody can coax it into confessing.” The poem won the inaugural Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America.īut after accruing all these accolades, Smith starts out the new collection Homie by electing others to pride of place. Smith’s next book, Don’t Call Us Dead (2017), was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the UK’s Forward Prize. Homie, by Danez Smith, Graywolf Press, 84 pages, $16Įver since Danez Smith’s debut poetry collection, Boy (2014), won both the Lambda and the Kate Tufts Discovery awards, the poet’s rise has been swift, the critics near unanimous in their praise. ![]()
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