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In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Home Remedy was originally published by Nomadic.

Norma Smith’s poems come out of a long life filled with its share of grief and healing, thwarted and unthwarted love, sex, and words. Home Remedy reflects the tension and ease of finding the cure for what ails you at home, among family and lovers. More experienced than innocent, the poems are deeply sensual, which means they can be painful. The book is full of skepticism and hope. Home Remedy will take you through to a place where you can see that life is much more complicated than mortality.