Winner · 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Tradition

Name: The Tradition
ISBN: 1556596022

by Jericho Brown

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Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
First published: 2019
Length: ≈ 96 pages
Reading time: 3–4 hours
ISBN: 1556596022

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What is this book about?

The Tradition is a poetry collection by Jericho Brown, arranged in three parts. The Pulitzer judges described it as a collection of lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence.

Source: The Tradition (poetry collection)