Bluff by Danez Smith
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024 elegies understanding words as visual propositions

understanding words as visual propositions

daring to "strangle Myth / whole

Here is extraordinary witness in poems that recall the work of Janet Frame in their confronting both of mental anguish and the transformations that are the hard won and healing reward for the descent into such perilous depths

long-time exile in Paris

and the right to raise children in peace and safety

Bluff by Danez Smith<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024</b> elegies understanding words as visual propositionsWritten 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, Bluff is Danez Smiths powerful reckoning with their responsibility as a poet and with their hometown. Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, new textual shapes and a deep self scrutiny. Ars poetica gives way to 'ars america'. A