Owed
Owed by Joshua Bennett is a poetry collection published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on November 9, 2023. This edition, comprising 112 pages, explores the theme of celebration while addressing the everyday Black experience in the United States. The collection invites readers to reflect on the relationships we hold with people, spaces, and objects often deemed insignificant, emphasizing the importance of care and attention in these connections.
In Owed, Bennett employs a variety of poetic forms, including elegy and ode, to elaborate on an aesthetics of repair. The poems encourage a deeper engagement with the historically marginalized, prompting readers to reconsider their perceptions and interactions with the world. Through this exploration, the collection aims to foster a new understanding of our shared present, allowing for a truthful reckoning with the past and the potential for collective growth.
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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)
Selected as a book of the year by the Telegraph
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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.
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