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From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a 'rhapsodic, rigorous\npoetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the US' (NewYorker)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 mendthe relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have beentaught 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--thesepoems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to thesongs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way ofbeing in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of thepast and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.
Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016) ? which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is also the author of Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022) and Spoken Word: A Cultural History, which is forthcoming from Knopf. He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College.
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