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Conjuring the Future Phrase by Phrase

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By Ed Simon, Joshua Bennett
| Essential American Poets
If America’s tale is best told through the pastoral—through seeds carried westward on winds not of their own choosing—then it must be acknowledged that this nation is no Arcadia of uncomplicated leisure and repose. Antebellum plantations had no role for the shepherd and shepherdess Strephon and Celia. Their ploughing was consensual; in America it was compelled.
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Extraordinary Cases

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By Joshua Bennett
| Essential American Poets
Ordinary language breaks down in extraordinary cases. —J.L. Austin There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more. —Theodor Adorno The lawyer-poet—or put more precisely, the working poet formally trained and accredited in the practice of law—is an understudied figure in US literary history.
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“Eatonville, Florida.” a Poem by Joshua Bennett

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By Joshua Bennett
| Literary Hub Verified
From the Collection We (the People of the United States) for Zora Neale Hurston For our purposes, we begin with the eternal feminine and its string of beads, end with you as a girl in Eatonville, days before you board a boat to cross the river, leapfrogging the invisible partition that separates your hometown from Jacksonville and its caverns full of cash; the haywire soundscape you once adored, and a private school scholarship to supercharge your future.
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