We (the people of the United States) / Joshua Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Joshua (Poet), Author.

Series:

Penguin poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Poetry.

United States.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 90 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2026]

Summary:

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."--Back cover.

Other Format:

Online version Bennett, Joshua We (the people of the United States)

ISBN:

9780143138648

0143138642

OCLC:

1561106892