Owed by Bennett, Joshua

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Author: Bennett, JoshuaPoetryPublished on 9 November 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Poetry) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 112 pages131 x 198 x 12 | 122g
From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the US (New Yorker)Selected as a book of the year by the TelegraphOwed is a book with celebration at its centre. 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 myththese poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. Whats 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.