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"Bennett's artistry lies in his ability to create poems that shatter complacency with bricks of loaded language." -- Quill & Quire on Civil and Civic "How are you doing, happinesswise?" This is the unifying thread, the casual-sounding but slant and penetrating question posed by these poems as they interrogate what we tell ourselves about happiness, about its opposite, and about ourselves in the process. Happinesswise is both cacophony and chorus: it's the voices of palliative patients and physicians, and the place where the dream state of a young pregnant woman clashes with the online reality of daily life. It's personal too: a suite explores a five-year period of Bennett's autistic son's childhood, charting a journey of love and misunderstandings, of anxiety and celebration as the wonders of neurodiversity unfold. There are elegies too. And confes No library descriptions found. |
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