—Melissa McEwen, Immunization Against Invisibility, “Just read this book. Original letterpress print 8x10 inches 2 inks / 2 passes 1st ed., 300 copies “Crossing” by Jericho Brown, from The Tradition, Copper Canyon Press. I’m set On something vast. Jericho Brown, your blackness, For all their sharp turns and fractures, Brown’s poems don’t feel muscular; instead, their impulse is lush and sensitive, not martial. Your books. '” Walk it. Here, as elsewhere, Brown handles his complicated and messy subjects with a strong sense of formal order and emotional restraint; he favors mostly short poems, poems with direct and arresting statements, and poems whose meditations usually arise out of the framework of narrative. Through the whiteness. In the duplex poems, Brown’s characteristic statement-making gives itself over to something more lyrical, imagistic, and even voice-driven: Love in the subway, love in mall restrooms. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. Fresh, deeply felt, formally adventurous,Please is a stunning debut.”

Early, walk it back when the day goes dim, everyone. What he really was inside / John Crawford.

In a poem in the voice, presumably, of Leda, there are haunting evocations of lynching and enslavement: But God’s soul rises out of its black A Young Man by Jericho Brown By Ethan Lengel. Crossing. Built over the water another.
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The juxtapositions the duplexes make possible create meanings out of fractures and disjunctions, challenging the writer’s own sense of authority as his sentences turn and reappear. You can’t accuse me of sleeping with a man.

Publication Date: Oct 2008 .”

Dear lion do not fear. Excuse me, more an insult than a battle. My life has been lived with not a regret. Time Like the men who own stables

On top for the last decade. Walk it. In contrast to the facile politics of so many poems in the internet age, The Tradition revels in complexity and self-incrimination: I am sick of your sadness, Like he’s been lying.

Jericho Brown’s The Tradition is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in March 2019. by Jericho Brown.

What’s yours at home is a wolf in my city. For use […]. In the title poem, a remarkable sonnet that critiques Age of Enlightenment notions of taxonomy, Brown merges the names of flowers, “classical / Philosophers said could change us,” and the death-bound subjectivity of black men, “Men like me and my brothers.” Brown draws a line between “the tradition” of natural science and “the tradition” of violence against black men at the hands of the state.
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“Pleaseis saturated with an artful passion that gives fire to Jericho Brown’s elegies and pathos to his odes. “That’s the version I prefer,” his speaker claims, “I like / The safety of it, no one at fault, / Everyone rewarded.” So often in the collection, these myths stand in for history. It reaches Long as the sea. Early, walk it back when the day goes dim, everyone. Through those tight, locker-lined corridors shoving The Los Angeles Review of Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. Four LARB-selected books + access to conversation on each book with LARB editors + all the perks of the print membership. . His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He writes of the body — the black body, the queer body — subject to the whims of power and violence, history, myth, sex, and death. He could not see This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 36 Number 10, on page 31 Copyright © 2020 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/6/crossing-9865, https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/6/crossing-9865. Donate $1000 to help foster our ongoing commitment to visual art, and you’ll receive, along with all of the perks listed above, credit for supporting LARB’s relationship with the visual arts.

The water is one thing, making this bridge. We work, start on one side of the day Like a planet’s only sun, our eyes straight Until the flame sinks.

Buy: Amazon | B&N | IndieBound | ShopWMU |Chicago Distribution Center. Brown’s critique in the poems of The Tradition is expansive enough to include the violence of both American history and the foundational myths of Western culture, as well the very history of lyric poetry. What these songs hold in common is a commitment to examining how love lives beside the wound, how tenderness and harm are so close together, for these battered singers, that it’s often hard to tell them apart. Subscribe to LARB's FREE Weekly Newsletter: By submitting this form, you are granting: Los Angeles Review of Books, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste. These voices are united by a menace that can never be fully exorcised, only recognized and sung about.” To read these poems is to encounter the devastating genius of Jericho Brown: ‘If I had known the location of my own runaway / Breath, I too would have found a blues. The “tradition” that Brown interrogates and transforms in this unforgettable poetry collection is the site of death and the site of survival: To obliterate my need for the field Brown deploys “traditional” lyric form, too, to make his starkest and most memorable critiques. His third collection, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In The Tradition, a dark American past and a dark American present collide with a world of myth. Of the sky to your escape This means your site will look good not only on laptop browsers, but also on devices with smaller screens, such as the iPad and the iPhone. It feels to him in these moments as though he’s been called on. We work, start on one side of the day.

The water is one thing, and one thing for miles. And raise a building above the grasses. The ghost of the “burgundy car,” for instance, one memorable object in the collection, cycles through the poems through a haze that is erotic and painful, intoxicating and distressing. Just as radio favorites like Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Pink Floyd characterize loss, loneliness, addiction, and denial with their voices, these poems’ chorus of speakers transform moments of intimacy and humor into spontaneous music.


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