An exciting new collection from award-winning American poet Danez Smith for the year 2020, when the world's attention turned to Minneapolis - his hometown. The collection "Bluff" is a powerful confrontation with the responsibility of the poet and his homeland during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Minneapolis became the center of protest following the killing of George Floyd.
Smith offers an orchestrated urgency in the poems of this collection, posing questions that demand a new language, new forms, and deep self-criticism. "Bluff" is a manifesto for artistic resilience in a burning world. In this collection, Smith embraces honesty, hope, anger, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.
Reviews for Danez Smith: "A poet of remarkable linguistic outreach, style, and grace" - Kayo Chingonyi, author of Kumukanda. "A writer who never loses his way" - New York Times. "Smith's ability to look death in the eyes and extract from it language fertile with myth, beauty, and intellect is remarkable" - Sandeep Parmar, Guardian.
Pages: 160, Dimensions: 17.7x17.7cm.
