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The sobbing school / Joshua Bennett.
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- ISBN: 9780143111863
- ISBN: 0143111868
- Physical Description: xvii, 73 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2016]
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| Subject: | American poetry > 21st century. American poetry. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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| Etna Library | 811.6 BEN | 31257000283522 | Adult collection | Available | - |
The Sobbing School
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The Sobbing School
The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose "astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable" (Tracy K. Smith) 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.
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