{"product_id":"owed-penguin-poets","title":"Owed (Penguin Poets)","description":"From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker)\n\nGregory 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0143133853\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKGRJ00DLAN_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bennett, Joshua\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41662988222522,"sku":"4EKGRJ00DLAN_ns","price":6.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0143133853-0.jpg?v=1789793019","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/owed-penguin-poets","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}