Bluff voices young Standing Bear belonged to

young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present-day North and South Dakota

a gentle red-haired

showing how the past contributes to the present

his story provides rich lessons in resilience

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

Bluff voices young Standing Bear belonged toWritten 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