How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness

Janet McAdams

a week’s worth of daily routines for an insomniac is disrupted by a mysterious home invasion

and from the beating heart of her unborn grandson to the vast

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Bluff Chamorro How do we find answersWritten 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