The Tradition by Jericho Brown
PBS Autumn Choice 2019 Chatto & Windus on the summer solstice

on the summer solstice

whose childlike style reveals the powerful emotions and fanciful imaginings of childhood

or its layout on the page - to engage the reader

 The Land Ballot and Glass Wings

From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries

The Tradition by Jericho Brown <br><b>PBS Autumn Choice 2019</b> Chatto & Windus on the summer solsticeJericho Browns daring poetry collection The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Browns 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? Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Browns