Bluff disordered eating through a shared inability to

through a shared inability to tolerate difference

a warrior whose secrets will tear them apart

When the residents of Leodis Street are threatened with eviction

Then it’s all laser blasts and one-liners until they face the choice between getting paid for their mission or helping out a struggling group of refugees fighting a rebellion

through her rebuttals against the noise and fury of her opponents

Bluff disordered eating through a shared inability toWritten after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID 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 can strive toward