We (the People of the United States) by Joshua Bennett

We (the People of the United States)

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We (the People of the United States)

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We (the People of the United States)

by Joshua Bennett

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From an award-winning poet praised for his "rhapsodic, rigorous" work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought

We (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem made to the measure of the modern world. Composed of 55 sections, it features a breathtaking range of characters and concerns: The Beach Boys, Gwendolyn Brooks, the invention of the typewriter, Zora Neale Hurston, Sun Ra, life on Mars, Robert Frost, experimental physics, The Jackson 5. Throughout the collection, Bennett summons Virgil's Georgics as a lens through which to not only tell the story of his family, but a much larger one about the "form of the American mind," our relationship to the natural world, and the pursuit of a dignified, abundant life. Published the year of the nation's 250th anniversary, it is a collection that is right on time. One that calls us, as Langston Hughes once did, toward a future America that is not yet here, "and yet must be."
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780143138648
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Joshua Bennett
Published Date:
2026-03-17
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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