(Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. You wouldn’t want … His second book, The (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. ... Jericho Brown won the 2009 American Book Award for his debut collection Please (New Issues, 2008). Duplex (I begin with love) ... Jericho Brown. Jericho Brown is a poet of eros: here he wields this power as never before, touching the very heart of our cultural crisis. He'd leave marks. About this Poet questions why and how we’ve become accustomed to terror: in the bedroom, the classroom, the workplace, and the movie theater. About the Author. By Jericho Brown It makes dark demands I call my own. His poems have appeared in "Georgia poet and Emory professor awarded the Pulitzer"Copyright © 2018 Jericho Brown. A poem is a gesture toward home. Like the sound of my mother weeping again, No sound beating ends where it began. Duplex . Brown’s first book, (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. Copyright © 2019 by Jericho Brown. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is an all-out exhibition of formal skill, and his lyrics move through elegy and memory with a breathless cadence. Memory makes demands darker than my own: My last love drove a burgundy car. Jericho Brown's first book, Please (New Issues, 2008), won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon, 2014), was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal and received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.His third collection, The … All Rights Reserved. In the urgency born of real danger, Brown’s work is at its most innovative. From mass shootings to rape to the murder of unarmed people by police, Brown interrupts complacency by locating each emergency in the garden of the body, where living things grow and wither—or survive. He is also the author of The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), which received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Beauty abounds in Jericho Brown’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection, despite the evil that pollutes the everyday.
Steadfast and awful, my tall father Hit hard as a hailstorm. The “duplex” is a new-build form constructed by the Louisiana-born poet Jericho Brown, and its “dark demands” are particularly insistent. His invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is an all-out exhibition of formal skill, and his lyrics move through elegy and memory with a breathless cadence. / I don’t want to leave a messy corpse.” Jericho Brown reads “Duplex” from his third poetry collection, The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. “I begin with love, hoping to end there. His third collection, won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Jericho Brown is a poet of eros: here he wields this power … Jericho Brown. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org. from The Tradition. Jericho Brown, "Duplex (A poem is a gesture toward home.)"