The Tradition // Poems
Jericho Brown • Copper Canyon Press • ISBN-13 978‑1556594861
The Tradition // Poems
Jericho Brown • Copper Canyon Press
ISBN-10: 1556594860 · ISBN-13: 978‑1556594861 · 2019
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Jericho Brown’s collection explores the normalization of violence and systemic trauma through a lens that bridges historical legacy and personal experience. By introducing the duplex—a formal innovation blending the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—Brown interrogates the complexities of blackness, queerness, and American identity. These poems serve as both a critique of societal terrors and a testament to the resilience required to survive within them.
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