| The Sobbing School Contributor(s): Bennett, Joshua (Author), Gloria, Eugene (Selected by) |
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ISBN: 0143111868 ISBN-13: 9780143111863 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 2016 Click for more in this series: National Poetry |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2016020931 |
| Series: National Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/2016 pg. 91 Publishers Weekly 11/07/2016 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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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