What the community thinks
summary of 359 ratings (see reviews)
Content warnings
Moderate
Hate crime (1 reviewer), Racism (1 reviewer), and Sexual assault (1 reviewer)Moods
reflective 80%
emotional 75%
challenging 50%
dark 22%
inspiring 22%
sad 19%
hopeful 8%
funny 2%
informative 2%
lighthearted 2%
mysterious 2%
tense 2%
emotional 75%
challenging 50%
dark 22%
inspiring 22%
sad 19%
hopeful 8%
funny 2%
informative 2%
lighthearted 2%
mysterious 2%
tense 2%
Pace
medium 48%
fast 32%
slow 19%
fast 32%
slow 19%
Average rating
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Jericho Brown’s daring new book 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? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. 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 Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while revelling in a celebration of contradiction.
Buy The Tradition
United States
Bookshop US
Other countries
Bookshop UK
Blackwell's
The StoryGraph is an affiliate of the featured links. We earn commission on any purchases made.
Jericho Brown’s daring new book 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? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. 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 Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while revelling in a celebration of contradiction.
What the community thinks
summary of 359 ratings (see reviews)
Content warnings
Moderate
Hate crime (1 reviewer), Racism (1 reviewer), and Sexual assault (1 reviewer)Moods
reflective 80%
emotional 75%
challenging 50%
dark 22%
inspiring 22%
sad 19%
hopeful 8%
funny 2%
informative 2%
lighthearted 2%
mysterious 2%
tense 2%
emotional 75%
challenging 50%
dark 22%
inspiring 22%
sad 19%
hopeful 8%
funny 2%
informative 2%
lighthearted 2%
mysterious 2%
tense 2%
Pace
medium 48%
fast 32%
slow 19%
fast 32%
slow 19%
Average rating