The Tradition

The Tradition

Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award

Honored as a "100 Notable Books of the Year" from The New York Times

"By some literary magicâ€•no, it's precision, and honestyâ€•Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."â€•Craig Morgan Teicher, â€œ'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Previewâ€ for NPR

â€œA relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a poem.â€œâ€•Rita Dove, in her introduction to Jericho Brownâ€™s â€œDarkâ€ (featured in the New York Times Magazine in January 2019)

â€œWinner 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.â€â€•O, The Oprah Magazine

â€œThe poems of The Tradition, Brownâ€™s third collection, are at turns tender and vulnerable, severe and riveting.â€ â€•Los Angeles Review of Books

Featured in NPRâ€™s â€œ'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Previewâ€

Named a Lit Hub â€œMost Anticipated Book of 2019â€

One of Buzzfeedâ€™s â€œ66 Books Coming in 2019 Youâ€™ll Want to Keep Your Eyes Onâ€

The Rumpus poetry pick for â€œWhat to Read When 2019 is Just Around the Cornerâ€

One of BookRiotâ€™s â€œ50 Must-Read Poetry Collections of 2019â€

Jericho Brownâ€™s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brownâ€™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 weâ€™ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brownâ€™s mastery, and his invention of the duplexâ€•a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the bluesâ€•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.
Country USA
Brand Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer Copper Canyon Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781556594861

Country	USA
Brand	Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer	Copper Canyon Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2019-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781556594861

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