The Sobbing School
Author: Bennett, Joshua
ISBN: 9780143111863
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 15 Jan 2017
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series - an extended meditation on both the terror and the persistent beauty of black life in modernity
Plt;bPgt;Plt;bPgt;The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose P#8220;astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensableP#8221; (Tracy K. Smith)Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;The Sobbing SchoolPlt;/iPgt;, Joshua BennettP#8217;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.P#160;What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and Plt;iPgt;interiorityPlt;/iPgt;, 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 BennettP#8217;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.
ISBN: 9780143111863
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 15 Jan 2017
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series - an extended meditation on both the terror and the persistent beauty of black life in modernity
Plt;bPgt;Plt;bPgt;The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose P#8220;astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensableP#8221; (Tracy K. Smith)Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;The Sobbing SchoolPlt;/iPgt;, Joshua BennettP#8217;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.P#160;What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and Plt;iPgt;interiorityPlt;/iPgt;, 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 BennettP#8217;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.
