03106cam a2200529 i 4500 2641270961 TxAuBib 20251211120000.0 231130s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023951383 9781644452981 paperback 1644452987 paperback (OCoLC)1394000218 TxAuBib rda Smith, Danez, author. Bluff : poems / Danez Smith. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2024. ©2024. 146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Inludes bibliographical references (pages 145-146). Anti poetica -- Ars America (in the hold) -- On knowledge -- Less hope -- It doesn't feel like a time to write -- [This shadow haunting me again] -- (Don't worry) if there's a hell below, we're all going to go - chopped & screwed -- Anti poetica -- Alive -- "You don't even know me / I'm hanging from a tree" -- Volta -- Headed -- Last Black American poem -- 1995 -- Approaching a sestina on I-94 west -- Dayton's bluff -- Rondo -- METRO -- Queen performing "and I'm telling you I'm not going" in a blue dress, saloon bar, Minneapolis, 07/2022 -- Dede was the last person I came out to -- Jesus be a durag -- I-35W north -- Downtown exits -- Minneapolis, Saint Paul -- Relativity -- Anti poetica -- Principles -- Poem -- Big head -- I'm not bold, I'm fucking traumatized -- The slap -- Ars America -- The joke -- I miss that negro -- Love poem outside of -- Colorado Springs -- Denver -- Sioux Falls -- Stoop poem -- El carbonero -- Two deer in a southside cemetery -- Elegy in green & blue -- My beautiful end of the world -- But how long into the apocalypse could you go before having to kill some white dude? -- The end of guns -- Love poem -- After & before -- Sonnet -- More hope -- Ars poetica -- Soon -- Craft. This collection is a powerful reckoning with violence, shame, and easy pessimism in which Smith relies on artistic resilience to envision futures that seem possible. 20251211. Floyd, George, 1973-2020 Poetry. 2000-2099. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 Poetry. Police brutality Poetry. Violence Poetry. African Americans Crimes against Poetry. Violence. fast Social conditions. fast African Americans fast Crimes against. African Americans. fast Police brutality. fast Minneapolis Metropolitan Area (Minn.) Poetry. United States Social conditions 21st century Poetry. Minnesota fast Minneapolis Metropolitan Area. United States. fast Poetry. fast Poetry. fast