Smith, Danez
Bluff: A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself
- ISBN 13:
- 9781784745738
- author:
- Smith, Danez
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Chatto & Windus
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 160
- Dimensions:
- 22.6 x 17.7 x 1.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Poetry, General, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Bluff is a powerful new collection from Danez Smith, a poet who never loses their way. 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 a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame and critical pessimism. This collection brings a startling urgency to Smith's 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', implicating poetry's collusions with unchecked capitalism. 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. With its startling urgency and virtuosic textual shapes, Bluff is a book that refuses self-consciousness and is exactly what it wants to be.
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