{"product_id":"the-sobbing-school-9780143111863","title":"The Sobbing School","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose “astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable” (Tracy K. Smith)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sobbing School\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003einteriority\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62248210071939,"sku":"9780143111863","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780143111863.jpg?v=1785412559","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-sobbing-school-9780143111863","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}