""Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry."-Rain Taxi"To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating ge
A Poetry Book Society Choice'To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius.' Claudia RankineJericho Brown’s daring poetry collection The Tradition details the normalization of evil
"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."—Craig Morgan Teicher, “I Reject Walls: NPR
Finalist for the 2019 National Book AwardHonored as a "100 Notable Books of the Year" from The New York Times"By some literary magic―no, it's precision, and honesty―Brown manages to bestow upon even t
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family?the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes?all from Asian American
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. PLEASE explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening ima
