Bluff by Danez Smith
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024 Troubador the dark of a battery

the dark of a battery farm

throughout their history and under the sway of a series of masters

new approaches

Poems acknowledge the life-giving support of the domestic

rhythmic lines that create and recreate images of our shared and specific pasts

Bluff by Danez Smith<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024</b> Troubador the dark of a batteryWritten 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