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Bluff : A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself - Danez Smith

Bluff

A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself

Read by: Danez Smith

Author: Danez Smith

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Published: 22nd August 2024

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A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world's gaze turned to Minneapolis - Smith's own home.

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 epicentre 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. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame and critical pessimism to imagine how we can strive towards a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.

Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, a deep self-scrutiny and virtuosic textual shapes. A series of ars poetica gives way to 'anti poetica' and 'ars america' to implicate poetry's collusions with unchecked capitalism. 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 to honesty, hope, rage and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.

'A writer who never loses their way' New York Times**

© Danez Smith 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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