![]() Recommended listening circumstances include: a golden hour stroll, sitting in your car outside of an Albertsons (at 10:30 PM), and post-heartbreak. Each piece is a conversation where they reveal a little bit more of what it means to reach for joy when Everything Else begs otherwise. They whisper just as well as they roar, displaying a mastery of intonation and pace unlike many other poets. The audio experience is intimacy at its finest Smith’s full-bodied voice welcomes you as a friend. ![]() Smith’s work tangoes with the effects of marginalization on the body and implores the listener to engage with polarized themes all while maintaining a polished finish. ![]() The collection is as much about grief as it is about celebration and perhaps how one is necessary for surviving the other. ![]() As a listener, Smith pulls you along through loving, through life, and through loss. Read by Smith with the candor and rhythm that you’d expect from a World Poetry Slam finalist, the readings pulse in the eardrums. Smith’s work is a mosaic – a testimony – to race, gender identity, illness, and language itself. ![]() Staunch defenders of audiobooks can find solace in Smith’s unapologetically vulnerable collection of poems, Homie. ![]()
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