Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Sobbing School

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: September 27, 2016

ISBN: 0143111868

ISBN 13: 9780143111863

The Sobbing School

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: September 27, 2016

ISBN: 0143111868

ISBN 13: 9780143111863

More books from Joshua Bennett

Owed

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation

4.7/5 ( ratings)

The Believer, Issue 134: February/March 2021

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The American Poetry Review Vol. 46 No. 2 - Mar/Apr 2017

Demons of the blood moon

Kenyon Review, July/Aug 2019

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Algorithm & Blues: Poems by Joshua Bennett

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Poetry Magazine February 2021

3.3/5 ( ratings)

To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

3.3/5 ( ratings)

God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845 - 1914 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Study of Human Life

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?