The Tradition (poetry collection)

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AuthorJericho Brown
AudioreadbyJD Jackson
CoverartistLauren Ralphi Burgess
LanguageEnglish
The Tradition
L. Ralphi Burgess, You're in the Middle of the World, ca. 2017, acrylic and mixed media, 18" × 25"[1]
AuthorJericho Brown
Audio read byJD Jackson
Cover artistLauren Ralphi Burgess
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
PublisherCopper Canyon Press
Publication date
April 2, 2019
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback and hardcover), e-book
Pages110 (paperback)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry (2020)
ISBN978-1-55659-486-1 (paperback)
OCLC1113894902
811/.6
LC ClassPS3602.R699 A6 2019
Preceded byThe New Testament 

The Tradition is a 2019 poetry collection by American poet Jericho Brown.[2]

The collection won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[3] Judges of the prize called the book "a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence."[4]

I
  • "Ganymede"
  • "As a Human Being"
  • "Flower"
  • "The Microscopes"
  • "The Tradition"
  • "Hero"
  • "After Another Country"
  • "The Water Lilies"
  • "Foreday in the Morning"
  • "The Card Tables"
  • "Bullet Points"
  • "Duplex"
  • "The Trees"
  • "Second Language"
  • "After Avery R. Young"
  • "A Young Man"
II
  • "Duplex"
  • "Riddle"
  • "Good White People"
  • "Correspondence"
  • "Trojan"
  • "The Legend of Big and Fine"
  • "The Peaches"
  • "Night Shift"
  • "Shovel"
  • "The Long Way"
  • "Dear Whiteness"
  • "Of the Swan"
  • "Entertainment Industry"
  • "Stake"
  • "Layover"
III
  • "Duplex"
  • "Of My Fury"
  • "After Essex Hemphill"
  • "Stay"
  • "A.D."
  • "Turn You Over"
  • "The Virus"
  • "The Rabbits"
  • "Monotheism"
  • "Token"
  • "The Hammers"
  • "I Know What I Love"
  • "Crossing"
  • "Deliverance"
  • "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"
  • "Dark"
  • "Duplex"
  • "Thighs and Ass"
  • "Cakewalk"
  • "Stand"
  • "Duplex: Cento"

Reception

Publishers Weekly called it "searing" and wrote that Jericho's duplex form "yields compelling results".[5]

Elizabeth Lund of The Washington Post called it "compelling and forceful because it wonderfully balances the dark demands of memory and an indomitable strength."[6]

Awards and recognition

Publication history

References

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