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Jericho Brown

The New Testament

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Honored as a “Best Book of 2014” by Library Journal

NPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-present death, but also the joy of survival and sin. And not everyone has the chutzpah to rewrite The Good Book.”—NPR.org
“Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry.”—Rain Taxi
“To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius.”—Claudia Rankine
In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast.
Fairy Tale
Say the shame I see inching like steamAlong the streets will never seepBeneath the doors of this bedroom,And if it does, if we dare to breathe,Tell me that though the world ends us,Lover, it cannot end our loveOf narrative. Don’t you have a storyFor me?—like the one you tellWith fingers over my lips to keep meFrom sighing when—before the queenIs kidnapped—the prince bowsTo the enemy, handing over the hornOf his favorite unicorn like those menBrought, bought, and whipped untilThey accepted their masters’ names.
Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. He currently teaches at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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34 trykte sider
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2015
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2015
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  • Nicté Toxquihar citeretfor 3 år siden
    I don’t remember how I hurt myself,

    The pain mine

    Long enough for me

    To lose the wound that invented it

    As none of us knows the beauty

    Of our own eyes

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