{"product_id":"the-sobbing-school-9780143111863","title":"The Sobbing School","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"sharp\" and \"scintillating\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sobbing School\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003einteriority\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bennett, Joshua\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143111863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Joshua Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962686976075,"sku":"9780143111863","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_900a9aaa-d1c3-4c81-a83b-30406e8959de.jpg?v=1605735907","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-sobbing-school-9780143111863","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}