Bluff - A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself (Smith Danez)(Paperback / softback)

A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year 2020, the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith''s own home.**A TIME MAGAZINE ''100 Must-Read Books of 2024''**''Bluff is my book of the year. Absolutely breathtaking'' Joelle Taylor, author of C+NTO: + Othered Poems''You will want to underline almost every line ... One of the best books of poetry I''ve read: buy it for anyone you love'' Hollie McNish, author of Plum''Gripping ... It’s as though the world is a scattered puzzle that Danez analyses and bears witness to'' Yomi Sode, author of ManorismWritten during the time the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Minneapolis became the epicentre of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith’s powerful reckoning with their responsibility as a poet and with their hometown.Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, new textual shapes and a deep self-scrutiny. Ars poetica gives way to ''ars america''. A photographic collage makes clear the consequence of accepting mass shootings. A brilliant long poem maps the history of Minneapolis-Saint Paul’s vibrant Rondo neighbourhood, before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it.Bluff is a manifesto about artistic resilience when the places we most love – those given and made – are burning. In this collection, Smith turns t
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