{"title":"Danez Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eDanez Smith's work challenges and redefines contemporary poetry with striking exploration of identity, race, and social justice. Their collections, including \u003cem\u003eBluff\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, offer potent, lyrical meditations that resonate deeply within the realms of arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a bold, evocative voice that blends urgency and grace, illuminating personal and collective experiences through powerful language and innovative form. Smith's poetry invites reflection on the complexity of modern life and the enduring strength found in resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bluff-by-danez-smith-9781784745738","title":"Bluff","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet with a devoted online and international following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A writer who never loses their way'\u003c\/em\u003e - New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world's gaze turned to Minneapolis - Smith's own home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten after two years of artistic silence, during which 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, \u003cem\u003eBluff\u003c\/em\u003e is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to imagine how we can strive towards a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, a deep self-scrutiny, and virtuosic textual shapes. A series of ars poetica gives way to 'anti poetica' and ‘ars america’ to implicate poetry’s collusions with unchecked capitalism. A brilliant long poem maps the history of Minneapolis-Saint Paul's vibrant Rondo neighbourhood before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBluff\u003c\/em\u003e is a manifesto about artistic resilience when the places we most love - those given and made - are burning. In this collection, Smith turns to honesty, hope, rage, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A poet of exceptional linguistic exuberance, style, and grace'\u003c\/em\u003e - Kayo Chingonyi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Smith writes towards the abundant and the difficult and makes something that is rare - a piece of art that refuses self-consciousness and is exactly what it wants to be'\u003c\/em\u003e - Raven Leilani on \u003cem\u003eHomie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46543185248492,"sku":"9781784745738","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784745738.jpg?v=1749765362"},{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead-by-danez-smith-9781784742041","title":"Don't Call Us Dead","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated collection by Danez Smith — 'One of the year's essential books' NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Smith's poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy' The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. \u003cem\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality — the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood — and an HIV-positive diagnosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Some of us are killed \/ in pieces,' Smith writes, 'some of us all at once.' \u003cem\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596290212076,"sku":"9781784742041","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10770a5a9106ea3d546436ac96c86a48.jpg?v=1777936808"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/danez-smith.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}