Bluff voices showing how the past contributes

showing how the past contributes to the present

a gentle red-haired

Schrab and Boszhardt take you with them as they research

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

Bluff voices showing how the past contributesWritten 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