{"product_id":"bluff-poems-condition-like-new","title":"Bluff: Poems Condition-Like New","description":"\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\nFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\nFINALIST FOR THE 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\nWINNER OF THE 2025 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith 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 Americas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBluff 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47799732175101,"sku":"BRWH-1644452987","price":12.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7777\/3309\/files\/814IQInyztL.jpg?v=1783332832","url":"https:\/\/upmyluck.com\/products\/bluff-poems-condition-like-new","provider":"Upmyluck","version":"1.0","type":"link"}