Bluff

A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself

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<p><b>A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year 2020, the year that the world's gaze turned to Minneapolis - Smith's own home.<br><br>**A <i>TIME </i>MAGAZINE '100 Must-Read Books of 2024'**<br><br>'<i>Bluff</i> is my book of the year. Absolutely breathtaking' Joelle Taylor, author of <i>C+NTO: + Othered Poems</i><br>'You will want to underline almost every line ... One of the best books of poetry I've read: buy it for anyone you love' Hollie McNish, author of <i>Plum</i><br><br>'Gripping ... It's as though the world is a scattered puzzle that Danez analyses and bears witness to' Yomi Sode, author of <i>Manorism</i></b><br><br>Written during the time 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, <i>Bluff</i> is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their responsibility as a poet and with their hometown.<br><br>Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, new textual shapes and a deep self-scrutiny. <i>Ars poetica</i> gives way to 'ars america'. A photographic collage makes clear the consequence of accepting mass shootings. A brilliant long poem maps the history of Minneapolis-Saint Paul's vibrant Rondo neighbourhood, before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it.<br><br><b><i>Bluff</i> 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.<br><br>PRAISE FOR DANEZ SMITH:<br><br>'A poet of exceptional linguistic exuberance, style and grace' Kayo Chingonyi, author of <i>Kumukanda</i><br><br>'A writer who never loses their way' <i>New York Times<br><br>'</i>Smith's ability to look death squarely in the eye and seize from it language that is fertile with myth, beauty and intellect is astonishing<i>'

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781784745738

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

225 x 174 x 14 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Vintage Publishing