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Books narrated by Danez Smith

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  • Homie

    Poems

    by Danez Smith ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRYDanez Smith is our president**Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Bluff

    Poems

    by Danez Smith ...
    FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 2025 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYWritten after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Don't Call Us Dead

    Poems

    by Danez Smith ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”—**The New YorkerAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Black Movie

    by Danez\ Smith ...
    2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way–saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Don't Call Us Dead

    Poems

    by Danez Smith ...
    Narrated by Danez Smith ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 15 min

    Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best CollectionAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking 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 ... Read more

    $16.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Blues in Stereo

    The Early Works of Langston Hughes

    Narrated by Danez Smith ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    Publishers Weekly’s **Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry BooksFrom Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes*,* a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith.**Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was a seventeen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking funds ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    BLUFF

    Poems

    by Danez Smith ...
    Narrated by Danez Smith ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 28 min

    Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Homie

    Poems

    by Danez Smith ...
    Narrated by Danez Smith ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    Danez Smith is our presidentHomie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and ... Read more

    $16.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blues in Stereo

    The Early Works of Langston Hughes

    Publishers Weekly’s **Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry BooksFrom Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith. Hanif Abdurraqib calls the collection of polished poems and raw, unfinished, works-in-progress, “a gift to any poet working at any stage of their life and career.”* ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Black Queer Hoe

    From an award-winning and "stunningly talented" writer, reflections on the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation (Samantha Irby, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life).Women's sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this refreshing, unapologetic debut, award-winning performance poet and playwright Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Without Laughter

    A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African-American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in Not Without Laughter a powerful and pioneering classic novel. A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Wonder as I Wander

    An Autobiography

    Series series American Century
    The most dramatic and intimate moments of Langston Hughes's life in the turbulent 1930s. The second volume of his autobiography following The Big Sea .Langston Hughes picks up where he left off in The Big Sea, which focused on his early life and involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. In this sequel, his wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD