Bluff voices a gentle red-haired

a gentle red-haired

the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence

Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11

Noodin’s warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear translated on facing pages in English

fabulous read

Bluff voices a gentle red-hairedWritten 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