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Danez Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Danez Smith is a writer and poet. Black Person/Poet (they/them)

24 books
Book Cover for: Time Is a Mother, Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong
DanezDanez

Day 2 #sealeychallenge Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong. Love the epistolary poems, love how this funny speaker that is so alive in this book. Great to see a great poet still playing despite what voice some might expect from him. A legit fun read with great heartbreak and care. https://t.co/Dpcf39Xn7K https://t.co/3BkHSUT9Bg

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Treatise on Stars, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

A Treatise on Stars

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
DanezDanez

RT @kjavadizadeh: “Looking is an innate impulse toward wholeness.” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, from A Treatise on Stars. https://t.co/ugiWlfUZ3V

Paperback, 2020

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Missing You, Metropolis: Poems, Gary Jackson

Missing You, Metropolis: Poems

Gary Jackson
DanezDanez

@redclayscholar @jerichobrown Also, I feel like reading Douglas Kearney’s “The Black Automaton” that young would be incredible. Also if he likes comics/heroes I would cop Gary Jackson’s “Missing You, Metropolis”

Paperback, 2010

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Black Automaton, Douglas Kearney

The Black Automaton

Douglas Kearney
DanezDanez

@redclayscholar @jerichobrown Also, I feel like reading Douglas Kearney’s “The Black Automaton” that young would be incredible. Also if he likes comics/heroes I would cop Gary Jackson’s “Missing You, Metropolis”

Paperback, 2009

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Jazz, Toni Morrison

Jazz

Toni Morrison
DanezDanez

.@Morgannapple on Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” is a must read https://t.co/aq0YsZd5Hr

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hybrida: Poems, Tina Chang

Hybrida: Poems

Tina Chang
DanezDanez

@thesundaypoet @musicman_nkosi There’s some others mentioned in the thread, but Tina Chang’s Hybrida and Shane McCrae’s In The Language of My Captor are some favs of mine

Paperback, 2020

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Love: Funny Notebook for Kids Wide Ruled with Quote Cover, Notes by Hand

Love: Funny Notebook for Kids Wide Ruled with Quote Cover

Notes by Hand
DanezDanez

I wrote it by hand, after the club, in a big green notebook where I took notes for the Randolph MFA and wrote ars poeticas after @AngelNafis reminded me that poems are supposed to love something, hold something, unless they be dust. Let the best poems be an endless stone.

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Book Cover for: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on, Franny Choi

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

Franny Choi
DanezDanez

A week from today, @fannychoir will be reading from her breathtaking new collection and I’m lucky enough to get to ask some questions. Come thru and be in awe of this great one with me https://t.co/wNekeurnm3 https://t.co/y67jtGiQQx

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A New Language for Falling Out of Love, Meghan Privitello

A New Language for Falling Out of Love

Meghan Privitello
DanezDanez

@PBW_Poet A New Language for Falling Out of Love by Meghan Privitello The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi

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Book Cover for: Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: Poems, Morgan Parker

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: Poems

Morgan Parker
DanezDanez

RT @margatebookshop: The debut collection that launched Morgan Parker's career, Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (what a title!)…

Paperback, 2021

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book