The Sobbing School (Penguin Poets)

The Sobbing School (Penguin Poets)

A â€œsharpâ€ and â€œscintillatingâ€ (Publishers Weekly) debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series
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The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennettâ€™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.Â 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 Bennettâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-09-27
Format Kindle eBook

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