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Joe Benevento
My Perfect Wife, Her Perfect Son reimagines the Holy Family's story through the very human voice of Joseph. Mary's pregnancy only begins his troubles. He has to navigate the unreasonable…
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When Monsignor Martin Heamey is found strangled just after a debate with Tony Cupelli, a former monsignor and present professor at Smith College, Tony’s detective brother Mike seeks a possible…
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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…
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My Perfect Wife, Her Perfect Son reimagines the Holy Family’s story through the very human voice of Joseph. Mary’s pregnancy only begins his troubles. He has to navigate the unreasonable…
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Playground features Joe Benevento’s usual obsessions: working class Queens, romantic failings, the saving power of family – equal parts ruefulness and almost unsupportable hope.
From a diverse, working-class Queens neighborhood emerge Joe Benevento's coming-of-age poems of promise, misconnection, and loss. Yearnings that are undone by youthful awkwardness, peer pressure, the strictures of grownups, happenstance…
