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The Sobbing School
The Sobbing School | Joshua Bennett
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Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennetts 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 Bennetts 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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A nice collection of written poetry based on Black history. My favs: Fly and On Stupidity.

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I rewrote my to do list. It hasn‘t gotten any shorter, but at least it‘s better organized? 🙀

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I color coded my to do list by priority and I am doomed.

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 318 - On Blueness

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 317 - Still Life with Little Brother

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 316 - On Flesh

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 315 - Love Poem Ending with Typewriters

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 314 - Samson Reconsiders

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 313 - Aubade with Insomnia

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 312 - Anthropophobia

Anthropophobia is, literally, “fear of humans”.

VonDerrit Myers was a black teenager who was fatally shot by Jason Flanery, an off-duty cop, in St. Louis, MO in 2015. The officer claimed that VonDerrit had a gun, but that claim has been repeatedly challenged. No charges were filed against the officer.

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 311 - Tenacious Elegy

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 310 - Home Force: Presumption of Death

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 309 - Black History, Abridged

silentrequiem This is so sad. 7y
Anna40 Sad! 7y
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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 308 - The Sobbing School

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 307 - Ode to the Mascot

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 306 - Family Reunion

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 305 - Fresh 3

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 304 - Fresh 2

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 303 - Fresh 1

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 302 - Variation on the Father as Narcissus

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 301 - First Date

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 300🎉🎉 - On Stupidity

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 299 - Self-Portrait As Periplaneta Americana

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 298 - Fly 3

Izai.Amorim That‘s a very beautiful one! 7y
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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 297 - Fly 2

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 296 - Fly 1

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 295 - Teacher‘s Aide

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 294 - Whenever Hemingway Hums Nigger

OwenBanner Umph 7y
Libby1 Wow. 7y
JoeStalksBeck Well then 7y
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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 293 - Fade

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 292 - Still Life With First Best Friend

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 291 - Run 3

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 290 - Run 2

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 289 - Run 1

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 288 - Theodicy

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 287 - Didn‘t Old Pharaoh Get List in the Red Sea: Theorizing Amnesia In Afro-Diasporic Maritime Literature

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 286 - Taxonomy

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 285 - Yoke 3

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 284 - Yoke 2

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 283 - Yoke 1

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 282 - Invocation

MariettaSG 😢 7y
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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 281 - On Extinction

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#LitsyPoetry365 Day 280 - In Defense of Henry Box Brown

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I‘ve had some busy evenings recently, and I‘m seriously delinquent on my #LitsyPoetry365 posts, so I‘ll be sending some rapid-fire update posts ...get excited!

I‘m switching it up from Margaret Atwood‘s collection THE CIRCLE GAME, and sharing poems from Joshua Bennett‘s debut THE SOBBING SCHOOL. I had the pleasure of hearing him read last night at The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, and it was so powerful!

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You know nothing beautiful
comes from where we come from.