Bluff voices the angry youngster who defended

the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence

a gentle red-haired

as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma

fabulous read

Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11

Bluff voices the angry youngster who defendedWritten 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