The New Testament

Name: The New Testament
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jericho Brown
ISBN: 9781696602273

Author: Jericho Brown

Narrator: Jericho Brown

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 12/22/2020

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry, African American & Black Poetry

Synopsis

Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library Journal

Honored as a "Standout Book of 2014" by American Poet magazine

Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, 2015

In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast.

About Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland. His first book, PLEASE, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets; the collection was also nominated for the NAACP award for poetry and made the Believer's top 5 Books of the Year. Brown is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucy

I want Jericho Brown to make music......more

Goodreads review by Roxane

Beautiful poetry. Brown does lovely things with cadence. You can feel these poems in the face of your chest.......more

Goodreads review by D.A.

These are poems both harrowing and luminous as the transfigured body, a reshaping of the difficult experiences of living into holy texts. "We wrote our own Bible And got thrown out of church" Brown writes of the soul-making conversation with God and the weaknesses and failings of humankind, but this......more

Goodreads review by Callum

The New Testament features one of the best opening poems I’ve encountered in a collection. It was the strength of this alone that convinced me to pick up the book, and though none of the other poems quite reached the dizzy heights of the first, I’m delighted to have discovered Brown’s work. Drawing......more