Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
A poetry collection that compresses love, violence, race, nation, and sexuality into intense, rhythmic language.
Work Information
Sharp, musical language braids together desire and pain.
Jericho Brown’s debut collection lets intimacy and violence echo against each other in tightly wrought poems.
Book Information
- Publisher
- New Issues Poetry & Prose
- Published
- 2008-10-01
- Pages
- 69 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 1.02 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781930974791
- ISBN-10
- 1930974795
- Price
- 4850 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African American/male identity and sexuality. Just as radio favorites like Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Pink Floyd characterize loss, loneliness, addiction, and denial with their voices, these poems chorus of speakers transform moments of intimacy and humor into spontaneous music. In Please, Jericho Brown sings the influence soul culture has on American life with the accuracy of the blues.
JERICHO BROWN worked as speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans and a B.A. from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown teaches at the University of San Diego where he is the Director of the Cropper Center for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, Oxford American, A Public Space, and several other journals and anthologies. Please, his first book, won the 2009 American Book Award.
Reviews
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Gorgeous outside and inside
Lyrical, musical, rhythmic and passionate, Jericho Brown's beautifully packaged PLEASE is a sustained pleasure to read.
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Great read!
I love how authentic this book of poetry is to read! It will take you through some real and suprising emotions.
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Jericho Brown is one of the best poets today
Jericho Brown is one of the best poets today. I was floored when I read this. And I immediately picked it up again the next day.
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One poet on the road to Jericho
After reading this book first, but having purchased both his books together, how radically delighted I was to have in my hands, such a transforming feast of life and words. Being a poet myself, and knowing the undeniable need to nurture, destroy, and lay myself down on and in the words of other poets who literally ignite my mind into flames, I am warmer now, braver now, and more committed to allowing my work to become something not even I had imagined, walking the road to Jericho. Forever grateful.... I am.
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Astonishing & Terrifying
The depth & breadth of these poems amazes me. Transcending work