A review by gxuosi
The Tradition by Jericho Brown

1.0

once again i'm not sure it's fair to rate a book on a scale of 5 when it's literally therapy trauma dump for the author. i did like this more than “milk and honey” by rupi kaur, but marginally so. the author sort of hates himself too much to make poetry where we can sympathize with his plight because in his poetic allegories, he references untenable crimes he attributes to himself and carnal jealousy over rabbits procreating. there were moments where i felt like i saw the author and others where words piled up like a barricade to make me turn away.