{"product_id":"bluff-poems-danez-smith-paperback","title":"Bluff: Poems -- Danez Smith, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\nFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY\n\nFINALIST FOR THE 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\n\nWINNER OF THE 2025 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eBluff\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBluff \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Danez Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.91\" H x 7.07\" L x 0.41\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781644452981\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51804976808235,"sku":"9781644452981","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781644452981.jpg?v=1774907685","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/bluff-poems-danez-smith-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}