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"By some literary magic―no, it's precision, and honesty―Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."―Craig Morgan Teicher, “I Reject Walls NPR 2019 Poetry Preview”

“A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a poem.“―Rita Dove, in her introduction to Jericho Brown’s “Dark” (featured in the New York Times Magazine in January 2019)

“Winner of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Brown's hard-won lyricism finds fire (and idyll) in the intersection of politics and love for queer Black men.”―O, The Oprah Magazine

Featured in NPR’s “I Reject Walls” A 2019 Poetry Preview”

Named a Lit Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2019”

One of Buzzfeed’s “66 Books Coming in 2019 You’ll Want to Keep Your Eyes On”

The Rumpus poetry pick for “What to Read When 2019 is Just Around the Corner”

One of Book Riot’s “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections of 2019”

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex―a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues―is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.

Ebook The Tradition Jericho Brown Books

"this book is literally a work of art it was relatable it pulled every string from the beginning to end. I would highly recommend this to anyone that want life to make sense even for a little bit."

Product details Paperback 110 pages Publisher Copper Canyon Press (April 2, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1556594860

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The Tradition Jericho Brown Books Reviews

• This collection of poems is very underwhelming. Some might call the poems subtle, but I will call them underdeveloped. This is an issue with a lot of contemporary poetry. It tends to lack style, compelling metaphor, or an original approach to exploring a theme or idea.
  
  The four or five duplex poems are interesting, and there are a few more stand out poems; however, this collection has a lot of filler.
• Brown's poems can be simultaneously painful and mesmerizing. For all their harshness they carry with them an undercurrent of hope that is never far away, but a current that requires digging beneath the false mythologies in order to find it. Important, essential collection. Strong both technically and emotionally.
• this book is literally a work of art it was relatable it pulled every string from the beginning to end. I would highly recommend this to anyone that want life to make sense even for a little bit.
• I loved this collection and had the opportunity to meet the author briefly for a signing. He was lovely and obviously a very passionate and devoted poet. His work is thoughtful and moving. Highly recommended for lovers of poetry.