| Description |
xvii, 73 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin poets |
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National poetry series |
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Penguin poets.
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National poetry series.
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| Summary |
"Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"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 toward the end of claiming that there is always a world beyond what we are socialized to see value in, always alternate ways of thinking about relation that explode easy binaries"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Subject |
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Bennett, Joshua (Poet). Sobbing school. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016 9781101993101 (DLC) 2016025326 |
| ISBN |
9780143111863 paperback |
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0143111868 paperback |
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