| Description |
x, 79 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series Title |
Penguin poets.
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| Contents |
Token sings the blues -- Owed to pedagogy -- The book of mycah -- Barber song -- Owed to the durag -- Owed to the high-top fade -- Owed to ankle weights -- Owed to the cheese bus -- Plural -- Palimpsestina -- The open -- American abecedarian -- Token plays the dozens -- Metal poem -- Still life with toy gun -- When thy king was a boy -- Mike Brown is a type of Christ -- You are so articulate with your hands -- Owed to the 99 cent store -- Owed to the plastic on your grandmother's couch -- Reparation -- Reparation -- Reparation -- Reparation -- Token comes clean -- Frederick Douglass is dead - Owed to long johns -- Owed to your father's gold chain -- Summer job -- Elegy for the modern school -- Elegy for the police state -- Purple city Byrd gang -- The panther is a virtual animal -- elegy for prison -- The next black national anthem -- America will be |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject(S) |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780143133858 (paperback) |
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0143133853 (paperback) |
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