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Homie (Paperback)
Danez Smith
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R320
R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
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"& colin kaepernick is my president, who kneels on the air
bent toward a branch, throwing apples down to the children &
vets
& rihanna is my president, walking out of global summits
with wine glass in hand, our taxes returned in gold
to dust our faces into coins
& my mama is my president, her grace stunts
on amazing, brown hands breaking brown bread over
mouths of the hungry until there are none unfed
& my grandma is my president & her cabinet is her
cabinet
cause she knows to trust what the pan knowshow the skillet wins the
war" ―from 'my president'
Danez Smith is our President.
A mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith's
highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy
and intimacy in a time where both are scarce. In poems of rare power
and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by
violence, xenophobia and disparity, and in a body defined by race,
queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to
remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout
comes up to the window, and family ― blood and chosen ― arrives with
just the right food and some redemption.
Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is
written for friends: for Danez’s friends, for yours.
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Black Queer Hoe (Hardcover)
Britteney Black Rose Kapri; Introduction by Danez Smith
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R905
Discovery Miles 9 050
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic intervention into
ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and
sexual exploitation. Women's sexuality is often used as a weapon
against them. In this powerful debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri
lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity,
sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black
Queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries.
Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a Chicago performance poet and
playwright. Currently she is an alumna turned Teaching Artist
Fellow at Young Chicago Authors. Her work has been featured in
Poetry Magazine, Button Poetry, Seven Scribes, and many other
outlets, and anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets and The BreakBeat
Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. She is a contributor to Black Nerd
Problems, a Pink Door Retreat Fellow, and a 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers
Award Recipient.
*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018* *A Finalist
for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017* *A Financial Times and
Telegraph Book of the Year 2018* '[Smith's] poems are enriched to
the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy'
The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking
force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and
performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending
sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a
place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and
replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on
earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality - the dangers
experienced in skin and body and blood - and an HIV-positive
diagnosis. 'Some of us are killed / in pieces,' Smith writes, 'some
of us all at once.' Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and
ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes an
America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough
a miracle.
Meet Lasombra and V, a dynamic reporting duo with a penchant for
being at the right place at the wrong time. Joining them is a
dysfunctional news cast whose daily lives blur the line between
on-air and off-air reality, all gripping with the emotional turmoil
of living in a cold, heartless industry. Enter a deranged serial
killer stalking the streets, wanting them all to be the biographers
and chroniclers of madness. But behind the villain's mask lies a
secret that will shatter the lives of friend and foe alike. Caught
in a media station's dream of exclusive access to a wanted
fugitive, the entire news cast must wrestle with the good of their
careers vs. morality and saving human lives. But that is only half
the story as they uncover a secret that if revealed will push
society into complete Armageddon, forcing them to question who they
actually are.
Let's just imagine you are getting ready for bed and you have a
nightcap that proves to be one too many. You suddenly find yourself
on the bathroom floor humming. The acoustics in the bathroom are so
good that you can't help but sing. Makes for a fun night. Now
imagine you had that nightcap at the club and never made it home.
You sing along with the band and try not to get kicked. Another fun
night. You just don't have clean teeth. Imagine how good that cool
floor feels, and how nice the jazz trio sounds, "Oh, I know that
one " so you sing along. That's how you will feel about the poetry
in this book You will want to sing along. Bring your reading
glasses and a nice snifter of your favorite spirits. Pour one for
me, too.
A journalist's account of the 1992 US senate race in Minnesota.
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