The new testament / Jericho Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Jericho, author.

Contributor:

Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 73 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2014]

Summary:

""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 steam Along the streets will never seep Beneath 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 love Of narrative. Don't you have a story For me?-like the one you tell With fingers over my lips to keep me From sighing when-before the queen Is kidnapped-the prince bows To the enemy, handing over the horn Of his favorite unicorn like those men Brought, bought, and whipped until They 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. Colosseum

Romans 12:1

Heartland

Another elegy

Cain

Labor

The interrogation

Paradise

To be seen

Langston's blues

"N'em

II. The ten commandments

Homeland

Host

Football season

The rest we deserve

What the Holy do

Reality show

Willing to pay

Dear Dr. Frankenstein

Another Elegy

Motherland

1 Corinthians 13:11

Hustle

III. Another elegy

Obituary

Psalm 150

A living

After the rapture

Hebrew 13

Angel

Receiving line

Make-believe

Found : Messiah

Another angel

Eden

At the end of hell

Heart condition

Nativity.

Notes:

"Lannan literary selection."

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Poetry, Winner, 2015

ISBN:

9781556594571

1556594577

OCLC:

870289279

Publisher Number:

40024050181

99960490823