{"product_id":"9780143111863","title":"The Sobbing School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “sharp” and “scintillating” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022564802800,"sku":"9780143111863","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143111863_p0.jpg?v=1763656706","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143111863","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}