Owed by Joshua Bennett

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 From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a "rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S." (The New Yorker)

Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "abounding in tenderness and rich with character," with a "virtuosic kind of code switching." Bennett's new collection, Owed, is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre and form--from elegy and ode to origin myth--these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780143133858
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Joshua Bennett
Published Date:
2020-09-01
Language:
English
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About Joshua Bennett

Holder of a PhD from Princeton University and an MA in theatre and performance studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar, Joshua Brandon Bennett writes both poetry and criticism. His books include The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022); Owed (Penguin, 2020); Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020); and The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His narrative nonfiction debut, Spoken Word: A Cultural History, appeared from Knopf in 2021. Bennett has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, MIT, and Harvard's Society of Fellows, and won Whiting Awards for Poetry and Nonfiction.

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