We (the People of the United States) by Bennett, Joshua

We (the People of the United States) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143138648)

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We (the People of the United States) by Bennett, Joshua

We (the People of the United States)

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We (the People of the United States) by Bennett, Joshua

We (the People of the United States)

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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From an award-winning poet praised for his "rhapsodic, rigorous" work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought

We (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem made to the measure of the modern world. Composed of 55 sections, it features a breathtaking range of characters and concerns: The Beach Boys, Gwendolyn Brooks, the invention of the typewriter, Zora Neale Hurston, Sun Ra, life on Mars, Robert Frost, experimental physics, The Jackson 5. Throughout the collection, Bennett summons Virgil's Georgics as a lens through which to not only tell the story of his family, but a much larger one about the "form of the American mind," our relationship to the natural world, and the pursuit of a dignified, abundant life. Published the year of the nation's 250th anniversary, it is a collection that is right on time. One that calls us, as Langston Hughes once did, toward a future America that is not yet here, "and yet must be."

Author: Joshua Bennett
ISBN-10: 0143138642
ISBN-13: 9780143138648
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Joshua Bennett
By Joshua Bennett
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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 (Knopf, 2023). 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 literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT.

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