Publication

2016 - Penguin Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

18,250 words, Guess

Page Count

73 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number944380199
  • Better World Books9780143111863
  • Better World Booksp8-arq-225
  • Open LibraryOL27225893M

Classifications

  • DDC811/.6
  • LCCPS3602.E664483 A6 2016
  • LCCPS3602.E664483A6

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Penguin poets
  • National poetry series

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