"Smith's searing fourth collection (after Homie) offers a powerful self-indictment of art and the artist in an age of social and political collapse."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Not to be missed; sure to be one of the best collections of the year."
--Sarah Michaelis, Library Journal (starred review) "I am going on record--
Bluff is the best collection of the year, and the best collection Danez Smith has ever written. These are poems you are going to want to share with everyone you know, and everyone you don't."
-- Ronnie K. Stephens, The Poetry Question "Smith's fourth full-length collection arrives in August and looks to be a restless, passionate admixture of forms, a chopped-up sonnet, prose vignettes and political commentaries, a long poem about the Rondo neighborhood in Smith's native St. Paul."
--David Woo, Literary Hub "A writer who asks as much of themselves as they do of the reader, Smith uses the full complement of their artistic toolkit in
Bluff: essays, hybrid forms, wit, visual art, reportage, and an expansive empathy. It is often too much to keep asking the same people to be bold in their work, but there are never enough words to praise someone's choice to keep being honest in public. Among other superlatives, Bluff is a test case in poetic Truth with a capital T."
--Aileen Keown Vaux, The Rumpus 
