| Management number | 231700900 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $0.54 | Model Number | 231700900 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0143111868 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0143111863 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Dimensions | 5.47 x 0.24 x 8.39 inches |
| Item Weight | 3.6 ounces |
| Print length | 96 pages |
| Part of series | Penguin Poets |
| Publication date | September 27, 2016 |
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