Your Homie from Another Heart: On Danez Smith’s “Homie”

DANEZ SMITH’S LATEST poetry collection, Homie, is actually not titled Homie at all. As the National Book Award finalist confirms point-blank in a note on the title: “this book was titled homie because I don’t want non-black people to say my nig out loud. This book is really titled my nig.” Indeed, a second title […] The post Your Homie from Another Heart: On Danez Smith’s “Homie” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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