Bluff: Poems Style:Paperback they’ve always been able to

they’ve always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team

By Katy Lees

and now they must navigate first loves

assimilation and pinkwashing settler colonial projects

and strangers

Bluff: Poems Style:Paperback they’ve always been able toBy: Danez Smith 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 epicenter 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 of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we