Owed by Joshua Bennett

Owed by Joshua Bennett

From one of the most impressive voices in poetry today (Dissent magazine), a new collection that shines a light on forgotten or obscured parts of the past in order to reconstruct a deeper, truer vision of the present

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.

Bennett, Joshua: - Joshua Bennett is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Owed and The Sobbing School, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. His writing has been published in The Best American Poetry, the New York Times, and the Paris Review.

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ISBN 13	9780143133858
ISBN 10	0143133853
Titel	Owed
Autor	Joshua Bennett
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-09-01
Seitenanzahl	96
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