Owed

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 ) 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