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The People Can Fly

American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time

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**What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work."Remind[s] us there is power in the collective body of a people and their culture. There is power in pressing on in the face of obstacles and opposition." —The ... Read more

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**What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work."Remind[s] us there is power in the collective body of a people and their culture. There is power in pressing on in the face of obstacles and opposition." —The
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Being Property Once Myself

Blackness and the End of Man

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A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal. Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure—the rat, the ... Read more

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A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal. Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure—the rat, the
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The Modern Art of Dating

by Bennett Joshua Davlin ...

Short description:A young Hollywood agent-trainee steals his boss's invite to L.A.'s most exclusive, forbidden party and is swept up in a series of events leading him to the brink of sanity. Read the Hollywood insider book deemed too controversial to print in its day.Long description:At the intersection of free will and opportunity you'll find out who you really are.1990s Hollywood agent trainee, ... Read more

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Short description:A young Hollywood agent-trainee steals his boss's invite to L.A.'s most exclusive, forbidden party and is swept up in a series of events leading him to the brink of sanity. Read the Hollywood insider book deemed too controversial to print in its day.Long description:At the intersection of free will and opportunity you'll find out who you really are.1990s Hollywood agent trainee,
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Union 57

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Long description:Government analyst Tom Grant tries to stop a terrorist operation that unfolds into a mystery surrounding the cryptic figure, Yves Alexander Dussant, long-jailed by the U.S. government without even a trial. For Dussant claims to be the Messiah and has a special power to prove it; because anyone listening to the sound of his voice suffers permanent neurological changes, ... Read more

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Long description:Government analyst Tom Grant tries to stop a terrorist operation that unfolds into a mystery surrounding the cryptic figure, Yves Alexander Dussant, long-jailed by the U.S. government without even a trial. For Dussant claims to be the Messiah and has a special power to prove it; because anyone listening to the sound of his voice suffers permanent neurological changes,
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God's Guide To The End Of The World

When Even You Can Be Saved

by Bennett Joshua Davlin ...

SCIENCE HID A SECRET FOR OVER 400 YEARS.Did you know that according to science's founder, Renee Descartes, science was formed by a Divine visit from God on the night of November 10th, 1619? So believers of science must believe in God, Who through ancient scripture warns you are in a second civil war; and most Hebrew Bible, end-time prophecies came true since the COVID pandemic in 2020 AD. God ... Read more

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SCIENCE HID A SECRET FOR OVER 400 YEARS.Did you know that according to science's founder, Renee Descartes, science was formed by a Divine visit from God on the night of November 10th, 1619? So believers of science must believe in God, Who through ancient scripture warns you are in a second civil war; and most Hebrew Bible, end-time prophecies came true since the COVID pandemic in 2020 AD. God
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The Sobbing School

by Joshua Bennett, Eugene Gloria ...

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The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose “astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable” (Tracy K. Smith)The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates ... Read more

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The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose “astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable” (Tracy K. Smith)The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates
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We (the People of the United States)

by Joshua Bennett ...

Series series Penguin Poets
**“An essential addition to the American poetic canon.” —BooklistFrom 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 ... Read more

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**“An essential addition to the American poetic canon.” —BooklistFrom 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
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The Study of Human Life

by Joshua Bennett ...

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**Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book AwardAn acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthoodFeaturing the novella “The Book of Mycah,” soon to be adapted by Lena Waithe’s Hillman ... Read more

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**Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book AwardAn acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthoodFeaturing the novella “The Book of Mycah,” soon to be adapted by Lena Waithe’s Hillman
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William the Green Shelled Turtle

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William is shy toward his new friends about his shell color and fears they will discover that he is different and won't like him anymore. ... Read more

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William is shy toward his new friends about his shell color and fears they will discover that he is different and won't like him anymore.
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Sarah the Pastry Chef's Apprentice

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Sarah becomes an unlikely pastry apprentice. The book contains the recipes used in the story. ... Read more

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Sarah becomes an unlikely pastry apprentice. The book contains the recipes used in the story.
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Dreamspace

Escape C19

by Bennett Joshua Davlin ...

Published in 2020, this sci-fi novel predicted too much of the events that followed. It was scrubbed as "COVID misinformation," reviews and my bio erased-until it resurfaced twelve hours before Trump's second inauguration. Read on, see what they tried to hide.China entombed the world. Now humanity found an escape. BY 2059 Chinese manufacturing pollution triggered the worldwide flood predicted to ... Read more

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Published in 2020, this sci-fi novel predicted too much of the events that followed. It was scrubbed as "COVID misinformation," reviews and my bio erased-until it resurfaced twelve hours before Trump's second inauguration. Read on, see what they tried to hide.China entombed the world. Now humanity found an escape. BY 2059 Chinese manufacturing pollution triggered the worldwide flood predicted to
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Owed

by Joshua Bennett ...

Series series Penguin Poets
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." ... Read more

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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 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."
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