Description
Bluff is Danez Smith?? powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This collection explores themes of artistic resilience, awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence.
Features:
- Explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd.
- Includes a series of ars poetica and anti poetica.
- Features a photographic collage illustrating the consequences of mass shootings.
- Contains a long poem detailing the history of Saint Paul?? Rondo neighborhood.
- A manifesto about artistic resilience, honesty, hope, rage, and imagination.