The Tradition
Jericho Brown
This daring new book delves into the normalization of evil and its historic roots. The author asks important questions about safety, freedom, and our nation through breathtaking poetry focusing on fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma. The use of sonnets, ghazals, and blues display the author's formal skill while exploring the terrors we've become accustomed to and celebrating how we survive. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection that celebrates the contradictions of humanity.