Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Jericho Brown's "The New Testament" is a powerful glimpse into a man who's tough and fragile, rough and kind. I love how he weaves a truly Biblical feel into this "testament" to the "new" man. Read more/5(). · Book Review: 'The New Testament,' By Jericho Brown | In his second poetry collection, The New Testament, Jericho Brown weaves together strains of Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · Jericho Brown’s The New Testament engages in the same personal/mythic set of shifts that his first book, Please, did – except this time, instead of speaking in the voices of famous singers like Janis Joplin and Diana Ross, he’s setting up that shift between himself and God. It’s a fairly bold move but one that works well in this instance, with a nuanced touch that allows him to address race, religion, Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
The New Testament by Jericho Brown surprised me with its vivid starkness and unrelenting honesty. As I read Brown's poems, I felt visceral reactions from my head to my toes. I wanted to reach out and comfort the inhabitants of his poems at times and at others I felt tempted to give them a good shake. In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexuality. These poems bear witness to survival in the face of brutality, while also elegizing two brothers haunted by shame, two lovers hounded by death, and an America wounded by war and numbered by religion. Brown summons myth, fable, and fairytale. Jericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important voices in US poetry, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 'To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius.' - Claudia Rankine. In poems of immense clarity, lyricism and skill, Brown shows us a world where disease.
Jericho Brown’s The New Testament engages in the same personal/mythic set of shifts that his first book, Please, did – except this time, instead of speaking in the voices of famous singers like Janis Joplin and Diana Ross, he’s setting up that shift between himself and God. It’s a fairly bold move but one that works well in this instance, with a nuanced touch that allows him to address race, religion, sexuality, family, authority figures such as doctors and policemen, love, and. The New Testament by Jericho Brown is published by Picador (£). To order a copy for £ go to bltadwin.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only. Brown holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans, and a BA from Dillard University. His first book, Please, won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament, was published by Copper Canyon Press.
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