RaveLambda Literary... rich with music and spirituality—of Jericho Brown’s own making. Here, in received and new forms, the language is plainspoken and concise; the voice(s) self-aware, self-reliant, seasoned. The Tradition is a lesson in the power of craft ... Brown stakes a claim within the canon, positioning himself alongside (and in conversation with) other eminent American poets—on his terms ... There is a subtle urgency to these poems, heightened and intensified by the forms and other elements of craft that Brown uses (and subverts) ... I invite you to bring your whole person to this fine new collection. In The Tradition, Jericho Brown has brought us his.
Danez Smith
RaveLambda Literary\"This book made me slam it shut a few times to keep from weeping in restaurants. Not because the poems are sad. Or because they are joyful. But because they are both, and neither. They confront the world(s) we live in... and imagine others... in ways and in language so precise and evocative that we lament and yearn right along with these searing, soaring poems ... There are fables, myths, and metaphor enough to set the mind reeling, and lines so plainspoken and sharp they go straight to the gut ... Dear a/America: Pay attention to Danez Smith. Read this book. But maybe not in restaurants.\
