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THE TRADITION - JERICHO BROWN KARTONIERT (TB)

The Poetry Book Society Choice  'To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating
genius.' Claudia Rankine Jericho Brown follows the success of his prize-winning The New
Testament with a fearless and daring new collection. The Tradition examines the normalization
of evil and of its history  from a perspective at once political and individual  societal and
intimate. The questions Brown poses go directly to the heart of our most human concerns: What
is safety? Where does freedom truly lie? Poems about fatherhood  blackness  queerness  legacy 
trauma are all realized with a masterful clarity  and his invention of the 'duplex' - a blend
of the sonnet  the ghazal  and the blues - bears witness to a rare and formidable formal skill.
The Tradition is a timely  necessary book from a poet recognized as one of the most vital and
incisive at work today. 'His lyrics are memorable  muscular  majestic . . . Brown's poems are
living on the page.' Ilya Kaminsky  author of Deaf Republic  'One of the most luminous and
courageous voices I have read in a long  long time.' US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith  author of
Wade in the Water  'Exquisite  incisive  as full of the spirit as the soil  the breath and the
body  The Tradition is today's essential poetry.' John Keene  author of Counternarratives

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