Expecting Songbirds - Benevento, Joe
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Joe Benevento's Expecting Songbirds, Selected Poems, 1983-2015, provides readers with the opportunity to sample the very best of the writer's work from his four previous books in poetry: Holding On, Willing To Believe, My Puerto Rican Past and Tough Guys Don't Write, along with some of his most recent journal-published poems collected under the heading "Ode to Pears." Oftentimes narrative, and predominantly free verse, Benevento's poems mirror his Italian-American, working class roots in a predominantly black and Latino neighborhood in Queens, but they also look back on his past three decades…mehr

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Joe Benevento's Expecting Songbirds, Selected Poems, 1983-2015, provides readers with the opportunity to sample the very best of the writer's work from his four previous books in poetry: Holding On, Willing To Believe, My Puerto Rican Past and Tough Guys Don't Write, along with some of his most recent journal-published poems collected under the heading "Ode to Pears." Oftentimes narrative, and predominantly free verse, Benevento's poems mirror his Italian-American, working class roots in a predominantly black and Latino neighborhood in Queens, but they also look back on his past three decades as professor, editor and writer in the small-town, overwhelmingly white Midwest and the tensions and ironies of having lived the life of an outsider in both settings. Poems delivered with the "plain spoken ease and realism of Frost" (Walter Bargen) and which, "at their best bring to mind the exceptional work of Philip Levine and B.H. Fairchild," (Larry D. Thomas), Expecting Songbirds is an affirmation of Whitman's goal to seek the miraculous in the commonplace. Whether dealing with never quite lost loves, multi-layered lessons gleaned from nature, or a bittersweet but genuine belief in family, Expecting Songbirds stands as testament to over three decades of serious commitment to accessible poetry by a writer who has not underestimated the redeeming value in never taking oneself too seriously.
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Joe Benevento grew up in a large, Italian American family in a racially diverse, working-class neighborhood in Queens; a fictionalized version of his times appears in his 2004 YA novel, The Odd Squad, which was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Benevento went on to major in Spanish and English at NYU, where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, before attaining an MA degree in English at Ohio State and a Ph.D. in English at Michigan State. Since 1983 he has taught American literature (including Latinx and Latin American literature in translation), creative writing and Mystery at Truman State University. He is also the long time poetry editor of the Green Hills Literary Lantern. Benevento's poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in over 300 journals and magazines, including Bilingual Review, Slipstream, Cold Mountain Review, Switchback, South Dakota Review, Prairie Schooner, Italian Americana and Poets & Writers. He has fourteen books to his credit, including Expecting Songbirds: Selected Poems, 1983-2015. Benevento and his wife Carol live in Kirksville, Missouri, where they have raised four children, Maria, Joseph, Claire, and Margaret.