The Tradition (poetry collection)

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The Tradition
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L. Ralphi Burgess, You're in the Middle of the World, ca. 2017, acrylic and mixed media, 18" × 25" [1]
Author Jericho Brown
Audio read byJD Jackson
Cover artistLauren Ralphi Burgess
LanguageEnglish
Genre Poetry
Publisher Copper Canyon Press
Publication date
April 2, 2019
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback and hardcover), e-book
Pages110 (paperback)
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2020)
ISBN 978-1-55659-486-1 (paperback)
OCLC 1113894902
811/.6
LC Class PS3602.R699 A6 2019
Preceded byThe New Testament 

The Tradition is a 2019 poetry collection by American poet Jericho Brown. [2]

Contents

The collection won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [3] 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." [4]

Contents

I
II
III

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. [5]

Publishers Weekly called it "searing" and wrote that Jericho's duplex form "yields compelling results". [6]

Elizabeth Lund of The Washington Post called it "compelling and forceful because it wonderfully balances the dark demands of memory and an indomitable strength." [7]

Awards and recognition

YearAwardCategoryResultRef
2019 National Book Award Poetry Longlisted [8] [9] [10]
2019 National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry Shortlisted [11]
2020 Lambda Literary Award Gay Poetry Shortlisted [12]
2020 Pulitzer Prize Poetry Won [13]

Publication history

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