Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Homie by Danez Smith

13 reviews

deyonce54's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Grief

Minor: Suicide

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

"& how many times have you loved me without my asking? how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? including me"

Homie is a declaration of enduring and joyous love. Smith's deep compassion for their friends is a uniting theme in this structurally playful collection. Smith weaves their own identity as a Black, poz, queer, and nonbinary person through poems that capture how loving & living can be frustrating and beautiful at the same time.
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This was my second read for #transrightsreadathon 2024.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Grief

fieldofhats's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This was not an easy book to finish. It’s less than 100 pages, but it is extremely heavy. Danez Smith is a master poet who knows how to weave humor and dark topics together beautifully, but the heaviness often outweighs the humor in this one. This collection is poignant and relevant, but not wholly enjoyable. That’s not to say this is a bad collection by any means whatsoever — it was just hard to get through. Be thoroughly aware of the trigger warnings for this book before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Classism

lilawsahar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Buy it! Read it! If you’re white, use it to develop some empathy! I’m white and my heart grew ten times the size. Off to go buy their other poetry collectives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Blood, Police brutality, and Classism

becksusername's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Grief

therainbowshelf's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Danez Smith’s poetry is reflective of life, and takes a hard look at racism, homophobia, and living with aids. There are a lot of striking lines in this book. I listened to the audio, so although I don’t think I got as much of the poems’ contents, it was fun listening to Danez perform his work. I also appreciated the intro explaining the real title of this collection and why he called it Homie.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Police brutality, and Grief

rlgreen91's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a gorgeous, gorgeous collection of poems.  A dear friend gave this to me for Christmas, and since I had a bit of time between book club selections, I decided to pick it up, with goal of reading a poem a day. I went into it with no expectations, which was a great idea. I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled by the many ways Smith conveyed and depicted friendship and community and grief in the poems.  If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be "acknowledgements," and "self-portrait as '90s R&B video" was the most fun to read out loud.

Revisiting "fall poem" on this Sunday October evening is the best way to cap off this collection.  I'm already looked forward to the next thing I read by Smith. 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, and Grief

Minor: Medical content and Death of parent

nagev's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

lcyarnall1's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief