Book

Bluff : poems / Danez Smith.

Summary:

"Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with violence, shame, easy pessimism, their responsibility as a poet, and their hometown of the Twin Cities. 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 epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, this book 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." -- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781644452981 (paperback)
ISBN: 1644452987 (paperback)
Physical Description: 146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Anti poetica -- Ars America (in the hold) -- On knowledge -- Less hope -- It doesn't feel like a time to write -- [This shadow haunting me again] -- (Don't worry) if there's a hell below, we're all going to go - chopped & screwed -- Anti poetica -- Alive -- "You don't even know me / I'm hanging from a tree" -- Volta -- Headed -- Last Black American poem -- 1955 -- Approaching a sestina on I-94 west -- Dayton's bluff -- Rondo -- METRO -- Queen performing "and I'm telling you I'm not going" in a blue dress, saloon bar, Minneapolis, 07/2022 -- Dede was the last person I came out to -- Jesus be a durag -- I-35W north -- Downtown exits -- Minneapolis, Saint Paul -- Relativity -- Anti poetica -- Principles -- Poem -- Big head -- I'm not bold, I'm fucking traumatized -- The slap -- Ars America -- The joke -- I miss that negro -- Love poem outside of -- Colorado Springs -- Denver -- Sioux Falls -- Stoop poem -- El carbonero -- Two deer in a southside cemetery -- Elegy in green & blue -- My beautiful end of the world -- But how long into the apocalypse could you go before having to kill some white dude? -- The end of guns -- Love poem -- After & before -- Sonnet -- More hope -- Ars poetica -- Soon -- Craft.