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Joshua Bennett
The Sobbing School
The Sobbing School
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A "sharp" and "scintillating" (Publishers Weekly) debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series
The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett's mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and interiority, where there is said to be none. Figures as widely divergent as Bobby Brown, Martin Heidegger, and the 19th-century performance artist Henry Box Brown, as well as Bennett's own family and childhood best friends, appear and are placed in conversation in order to show that there is always a world beyond what we are socialized to see value in, always alternative ways of thinking about relation that explode easy binaries.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bennett, Joshua
Published: 09/27/2016
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143111863
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.30d
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The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett's mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and interiority, where there is said to be none. Figures as widely divergent as Bobby Brown, Martin Heidegger, and the 19th-century performance artist Henry Box Brown, as well as Bennett's own family and childhood best friends, appear and are placed in conversation in order to show that there is always a world beyond what we are socialized to see value in, always alternative ways of thinking about relation that explode easy binaries.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bennett, Joshua
Published: 09/27/2016
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143111863
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.30d
