The Tradition

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Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1556594860
ISBN 13
9781556594861
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2019
Publisher
Pages
110
Subject
Poetry by Black and African-American Authors
Description
Beauty abounds in Jericho Brown’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, despite and inside of the evil that pollutes the everyday. A National Book Award finalist, The Tradition questions why and how we’ve become accustomed to terror: in the bedroom, the classroom, the workplace, and the movie theater. From mass shootings to rape to the murder of unarmed people by police, Brown interrupts complacency by locating each emergency in the garden of the body, where living things grow and wither—or survive. In the urgency born of real danger, Brown’s work is at its most innovative. His invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is an all-out exhibition of formal skill, and his lyrics move through elegy and memory with a breathless cadence. Jericho Brown is a poet of eros: here he wields this power as never before, touching the very heart of our cultural crisis. -- from back cover.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Iowa City Poetry Lending Library | 121 | 1 | Yes |