New Testament

In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexuality. These poems bear witness to survival in the face of brutality, while also elegizing two brothers haunted by shame, two lovers hounded by death, and an America wounded by war and numbered by religion. Brown summons myth, fable, and fairytale not to merely revise the Bible—more so to write the kind of lyric poetry we find at the source of redemption—for the profane and for the sacred.

In Noul Testament, Jericho Brown isi continua examinarea tandra a rasei, masculinitatii si sexualitatii. Aceste poezii marturisesc supravietuirea in fata brutalitatii, in timp ce elegeaza, de asemenea, doi frati bantuiti de rusine, doi iubiti urmariti de moarte si o America ranita de razboi si numerotata de religie.