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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY
The Tradition by Jericho Brown, is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while revelling in a celebration of contradiction.
A Poetry Book Society Choice
‘To read Jericho Brown’s poems is to encounter devastating genius.’ Claudia Rankine
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 Genre of Silence 
Soho 
The Edge of Necessary 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Five American Poets 
God Love Poetry, In-Prints You 
Private Papers: 
Silly Rhymes and Limericks 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Selected Poetry 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Six Poets 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
River Lane