The Sobbing School Ages 9 and up magazine recognized Noonday Collection as

magazine recognized Noonday Collection as one of the fastest-growing companies in America

poet laureate

With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow

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The Sobbing School Ages 9 and up magazine recognized Noonday Collection asThe 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