Jericho Brown has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Tradition.
The Tradition
Summary
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award Jericho Brown's daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown's mastery, and his invention of the duplex - a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues - is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.
©2019 Jericho Brown (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
The New Testament
Summary
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.
©2014 Jericho Brown (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books