The Tradition

Jericho Brown

The Tradition
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 August 2019
Pages
86
ISBN
9781529020472

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020

Jericho Brown’s daring poetry collection 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?

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 - testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while revelling in a celebration of contradiction.

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