Bluff: Poems
Bluff: Poems
Smith, Danez
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9781644452981, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
ic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter 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 of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward 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 photographic collage accrues across a sequence to make clear the consequences of America's acceptance of mass shootings. A brilliant long poem--part map, part annotation, part visual argument--offers the history of Saint Paul's vibrant Rondo neighborhood before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it.

Bluff is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting, when the places we most love--those given and made--are burning. In this soaring collection, Smith turns to honesty, hope, rage, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

Coronation: A History of the ...

by Strong, Roy

Hardcover /Hardcover

$26.24

Steve Jobs

by Goldsworthy, Steve

Paperback /Paperback

$10.46

Memoirs From Calibrated Eyes

by O, Sandy

Hardcover /Hardcover

$16.16

Sword Art Online Coloring Book: ...

by Poniarik

Paperback /Paperback

$6.12

listens & views

PROUD LIKE A GOD (GER)

by GUANO APES

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$31.99

PASSE O TEMPO QUE PASSAR

by RICK AND RENNER

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$14.99

SUNNY SIDE UP

by WEST END JAZZ BAND

COMPACT DISC

$18.25

MESSAGE

by MCKAMEYS

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.99

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group