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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.
Series: National Poetry Series
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (September 27, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143111868
ISBN-13: 978-0143111863
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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