{"title":"Joshua Bennett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Bennett\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of human experience through his works, blending elements of \u003cem\u003ebiography\u003c\/em\u003e and cultural reflection. His writing invites readers to engage with personal narratives that illuminate broader themes of identity, history, and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a rich focus on \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Bennett's books provide thoughtful insights into the intersections of creativity and lived experience. Expect evocative storytelling that honours both individual voices and collective histories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-study-of-human-life-by-joshua-bennett-9781526664532","title":"The Study of Human Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLonglisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoon to be adapted for screen by Lena Waithe and Warner Bros.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn award-winning collection and novella exploring the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross three sequences, Joshua Bennett’s new book recalls and reimagines social worlds almost but not entirely lost, all while gesturing toward the ones we are building even now, in the midst of a state of emergency, together. Bennett opens with a set of autobiographical poems that deal with themes of family, life, death, vulnerability, and the joys and dreams of youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe central section, “The Book of Mycah,” features an alternate history where Malcolm X is resurrected from the dead, as is a young black man shot by the police some fifty years later in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final section of \u003cem\u003eThe Study of Human Life\u003c\/em\u003e presents poems that Bennett has written about fatherhood, on the heels of his own first child being born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Joshua Bennett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘One of the brightest intellectual and political thinkers of a new generation’ — Jesse McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Bennett conjures a spirit of kinship that, illuminated by redolent imagery, borders on mythic’ — \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Joshua Bennett’s astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable’ — Tracy K Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363166306540,"sku":"9781526664532","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8e84579dc722f41f6f4de053d0a7f9ba.jpg?v=1772935116"},{"product_id":"the-people-can-fly-by-joshua-bennett-9780316576024","title":"The People Can Fly","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWhiting award-winning poet and Distinguished Chair of Humanities at MIT, Dr. Joshua Bennett creates a masterful synthesis of personal narrative and history that illuminates the promises and perils of being labelled a Black prodigy.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe outside world's perception of Black promise comes and goes. It does so in ways that are undeniably advantageous for Black children. Yet here, Dr. Bennett explores the rarely examined pitfalls of being a \u003ci\u003eBlack prodigy\u003c\/i\u003e in a society that has, too often, defined \u003ci\u003eBlackness\u003c\/i\u003e as the very absence of intellect. Bennett probes what it means to be \u003ci\u003eothered\u003c\/i\u003e, even if this othering is the same key to an individual's success in an unfair world, demanding that we build alternative futures that make space for the promise and hope of every child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe People Can Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, Bennett shares his own academic journey—including spoken word performances at The White House and Sundance Film Festival, an NAACP Image Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship—which mirrors the ebb and flow between being deemed promising and \"a problem.\" He bolsters this personal narrative by observing how disability within his own family complicates society's perception of \u003ci\u003egenius\u003c\/i\u003e, and by diving into the under-examined history of young intellectuals like Oscar Moore, Thomas Wiggins, Stephen Wiltshire, and others. 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