Playground - Benevento, Joe
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"Playground" picks up momentum from Benevento's previous two books of poetry, his volume of "selected" poems, (Expecting Songbirds 1983-2015), and his chapbook of poems in his own invented form, After, by including poems with an even wider range of publication dates than in Expecting Songbirds, and the presence of eight new "After" poems among its twenty-six lyrics. Themes such as the after effects of unrequited love, growing up in working class Queens, the redeeming potential in family, all make their appearance. This collection offers far more than recapitulation, though, with poems set in…mehr

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"Playground" picks up momentum from Benevento's previous two books of poetry, his volume of "selected" poems, (Expecting Songbirds 1983-2015), and his chapbook of poems in his own invented form, After, by including poems with an even wider range of publication dates than in Expecting Songbirds, and the presence of eight new "After" poems among its twenty-six lyrics. Themes such as the after effects of unrequited love, growing up in working class Queens, the redeeming potential in family, all make their appearance. This collection offers far more than recapitulation, though, with poems set in places as varied as a bagel shop in Columbus, a tapas bar in downtown Miami and a barrio in East Oakland, and subjects ranging from rehabbing a shoulder impingement, to participating in a track program for underprivileged youth to inventing a new kind of cake. Throughout these poems, Benevento affirms, as he has in published work for over thirty-five years now, his obsession with the paradox of poetry's ability to offer hope to a world that seems often hopeless without it.
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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.