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From a 2021 Whiting Award & 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 & 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 & the people, spaces, & objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre & form--from elegy & ode to origin myth — these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs & 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 & thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.

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Author

Joshua Bennett

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group; Penguin Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143133858

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, American Poetry

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24