Imagination Unchained: The Poetic Nature of Reality

by Joshua Bennett

Imagination is intertwined with the poetic nature of reality. In this book, discover the wonder of imagination by taking a journey inside imagination. People communicate their experiences of life in various forms, just as this tale combines those various forms of self-expression using short stories, mini-films, poetry, essays, and visual imagery. Multiple storytelling forms combine to tell one story, a tale where Michael and Veronica must free themselves from the fear of threats facing their lives as they face Good and Evil forces in a battle of corporate espionage and blackmail that will determine the future of the world.

Michael and Veronica are taken into fantasy worlds formed by The Writer Within's imagination, where he invites them to question their interaction with reality using their own imaginations. After gaining self-awareness of being created as characters in a story written by The Writer Within, Michael and Veronica offer us an adventure to learn about ourselves and the world we're born into. Imagination is the closest thing to infinity that humans have, and it's also the tool to help people create a future that doesn't yet exist.

97 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2025

About the author

Joshua Bennett received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He also holds an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. In 2010, he delivered the Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the distinctions of Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.

Winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Cave Canem, the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, and the Ford Foundation. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Poetry and elsewhere. He has recited his original work at venues such as the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at The White House. He is currently a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.