{"product_id":"owed-paperback","title":"Owed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a \"rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Sobbing School\u003c\/i\u003e, as an \"arresting debut\" that was \"abounding in tenderness and rich with character,\" with a \"virtuosic kind of code switching.\" Bennett's new collection, \u003ci\u003e Owed\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, performer, and scholar Joshua Bennett is the author of three collections of poetry: \u003ci\u003eThe Study of Human Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOwed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sobbing School\u003c\/i\u003e; a book of criticism, \u003ci\u003eBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man\u003c\/i\u003e; and a work of narrative nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eSpoken Word: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e. He received his PhD in English from Princeton University, and is currently Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. His writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. In 2021, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award in Poetry and Nonfiction. He lives in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692826628159,"sku":"9780143133858","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3696b19b961a3ca3817f0e168c71643c.webp?v=1764996756","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/owed-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}