2019 poetry collection by Jericho Brown
The Tradition is a 2019 poetry collection by American poet Jericho Brown.
The collection won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Judges of the prize called the book "a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence."
Reception.
At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the collection received a cumulative "Rave" rating based on 18 reviews: 12 "Rave" reviews, 5 "Positive" reviews, and 1 "Mixed" review.
"Publishers Weekly" called it "searing" and wrote that Jericho's duplex form "yields compelling results".
Elizabeth Lund of "The Washington Post" called it "compelling and forceful because it wonderfully balances the dark demands of memory and an indomitable strength."
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