"Lannan literary selection."

"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's 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? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown's mastery, and his invention of the duplex--a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues--testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction"--Goodreads.com

"In collaboration with the On Being Project and the Free Library of Philadelphia" -- title page

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2020

Ganymede -- As a human being -- Flower -- Microscopes -- Tradition -- Hero -- After another country -- Water lilies -- Foreday in the morning -- Card tables -- Bullet points -- Duplex -- Trees -- Second language -- After Avery R. Young -- A young man -- Duplex -- Riddle -- Good white people -- Correspondence -- Trojan -- Legend of big and fine -- Peaches -- Night shift -- Shovel -- Long way -- Dear whiteness -- Of the swan -- Entertainment industry -- Stake -- Layover -- Duplex -- Of my fury -- After Essex Hemphill -- Stay -- A.D. -- Turn you over -- Virus -- Rabbits -- Monotheism -- Token -- Hammers -- I know what I love -- Crossing -- Deliverance -- Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park -- Dark -- Duplex -- Thighs and ass -- Cakewalk -- Stand -- Duplex: cento