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by Jericho Brown
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jericho BrownSeries:New Issues Poetry & ProsePublish date:2008-10-01Pages:69
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Issues Poetry and ProseISBN-13:9781930974791ISBN-10:1930974795UPC:9781930974791Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackAward:2009 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Poetry Award|2008 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Gay Poetry AwardSize:8.30 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCWFV6HCQF
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Issues Poetry and ProseISBN-13:9781930974791ISBN-10:1930974795UPC:9781930974791Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackAward:2009 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Poetry Award|2008 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Gay Poetry AwardSize:8.30 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCWFV6HCQF
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.
Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

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🏆 2009 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Poetry Award|2008 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Gay Poetry Award

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