The Sobbing School

by Joshua Bennett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143111868
• ISBN13: 9780143111863
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"