Bluff by Danez Smith
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024 Siriol Troup This sets her apart

This sets her apart

The little green man’s encounters and observations

graceful in their cadences

from the spaces in between

the eternal battle between Eros and Thanatos… It’s a tribute to Landau’s prodigious poetic gifts that she can hold the paradox in her hands so well

Bluff by Danez Smith<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024</b> Siriol Troup This sets her apartWritten 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