Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Bluff by Danez Smith A searing new collection from the Forward prizewinning American poet with a devoted online and international followingA writer who never loses their way New York TimesA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the worlds gaze turned to Minneapolis - Smiths own home.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 Danez Smiths powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame and critical pessimism to imagine how we can strive towards a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.Smith 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 poetrys collusions with unchecked capitalism. A brilliant long poem maps the history of Minneapolis-Saint Pauls vibrant Rondo neighbourhood before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it.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.A poet of exceptional linguistic exuberance, style and grace Kayo ChingonyiSmith writes towards the abundant and the difficult and makes something that is rare - a piece of art that refuses self-consciousness and is exactly what it wants to be Raven Leilani on Homie FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Danez Smith is the author of Homie (2020) and Dont Call Us Dead (2018), which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Four Quartets Prize awarded by the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the National Book Award. They live in Minneapolis. Review Smiths interrogation of poetrys complicity in suffering is expressed in brilliantly crafted, rhythmically complex verse * Rebecca Tamás, Guardian *In this latest collection Smith returns to examinations of racism, of its insidious violence, and of resistance to it. But this new work also strikingly explores the idea of the poets culpability, about how we write about injustices without profiting from them, either financially or in deeper cultural terms. There is an honesty in the work that is at times overwhelming, a book too hot to touch. This is Smiths gift, this search for a sense of truth - or even justice - in a world without much of either. Inventive, restless, awe struck, and grieving, Smith pushes language and sonics like no other poet. In their steepled hands, poems become prayers to a god we are afraid to look at. It might be too early to declare, but I dont think so. Bluff is my book of the year. Absolutely breathtaking * Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto & Othered Poems *Bluff is a gripping collection that breaks the fourth wall. It is cathartic in its outpouring, inviting the reader to join, and be present. Its as though the world is a scattered puzzle that Danez analyses and bears witness to. A reality, a mourning, an abstractness in making sense of, and motions to piece together * Yomi Sode, author of Manorism *I didnt think Danez Smith could get any more brilliant. I was wrong. A book that whispers to your bones. This is a book I will keep open. There is too much inside to ever let it close. You will want to underline, to highlight, to heart almost every line. Yes, everybody should read this book; not only for what is said, but for the impeccable, experimental and essential poetry in which it is written. This is one of the best books of poetry Ive read: buy it for anyone you love * Hollie McNish *Danez Smith is one of the most important American poets of our age… Bluffs vantage point is dark and original and foregrounds the historical significance of this time of racial reckonings… and perhaps signifies a new era of politically conscious poetry that rejects ideas of individual empowerment in favour of enlightenment * Observer, *Poetry Book of the Month* * Details ISBN1784745731 Author Danez Smith Pages 160 Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781784745738 Format Paperback Imprint Chatto & Windus Subtitle A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General ISBN-10 1784745731 Publication Date 2024-08-22 UK Release Date 2024-08-22 Alternative 9781529939408 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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