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The Tradition
The Tradition
Jericho Brown

The Tradition

Sale price$1.00

From the Mother Tongue Subversion & Charm collection.

Nominated by Advocate, Writer, Strategist & Founder
Lina Srivastava

"The poetry in Jericho Brown's book "The Tradition" sings in beauty and resistance. Brown's poems, some of which are written in the "duplex," his own innovation on poetic form, brings the reader into a world of combined identities in which evil is met with care, rage, love, and justice." 
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—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.

Borrow, share, exchange as you wish, and return by the end of the season on February 6th. Pick up at the gallery anytime, and return and swap for a new book of your choosing. To our global friends - online borrowing is possible, just pay for the shipping there and back. 

The Mother Tongue Library is a love letter to the thinkers, writers, and artists who’ve given us the language of courage when we needed it most. 
The Tradition
The Tradition Sale price$1.00