Bluff: Poems Binding:Paperback from a writer whose mark

from a writer whose mark on our culture continues to be made

” a schoolyard fistfight

Drawing on disparate philosophies and science behind electronic beat-making

but it is her infectious warmth that keeps them at the table

Over the course of their few days together in the capital

Bluff: Poems Binding:Paperback from a writer whose markWritten 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