The Sobbing School - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Joshua Bennett, Eugene GloriaSeries:Penguin PoetsPublish date:2016-09-27Pages:96
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143111863ISBN-10:143111868UPC:9780143111863Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, FamilySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCWPCGPY77
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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143111863ISBN-10:143111868UPC:9780143111863Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, FamilySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCWPCGPY77
Poet, performer, and scholar Joshua Bennett is the author of three collections of poetry: The Study of Human Life, Owed, and The Sobbing School; a book of criticism, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man; and a work of narrative nonfiction, Spoken Word: A Cultural History. He received his PhD in English from Princeton University, and is currently Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. His writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2021, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award in Poetry and Nonfiction. He lives in Boston.
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