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.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Poetry
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Joshua Bennett
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
112 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5266-6527-0 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-5266-6527-1 |
Barcode: |
9781526665270 |
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