Owed
by Joshua Bennett
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Pub Date 9 Nov 2023 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2023
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury Poetry
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Description
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)
Owed 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 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.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781526665270 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 112 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1257102
This compilation of modern poetry is *magnificent*. I adored everything about it. Numerous poems pay homage to various things and locations, such as the durag, the plastic on your grandmother's couch, the school bus, and the barbershop. The compilation, which weaves together photographs, tales, and recollections about friends, family, growing up, and politics after Ferguson and after 2016, is a tribute to blackness in America. These poems are filled with passion, heart, and soul. Because it's so clear, it sounds foolish to say it, but Joshua Bennett is a master of language. I was disappointed when I finished reading since I could have continued to sit in his thoughts all day.
If you are a poetry lover, I highly recommend this brilliant book to you! Anything Joshua Bennett is kind enough to share with us in the future is something I'll read.
Luke M, Bookseller
The contemporary landscape of poetry by black men is one of the most exciting in the literary world, and this collection by Joshua Bennett is yet another contribution to this growing body of sharp, incisive, emotive work. I devoured this from start to finish, and I'm incredibly excited to see the reaction of the general public to such a powerful voice.
