Please by Brown, Jericho

Please (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781930974791)

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Please by Brown, Jericho

Please

$16.00
Please by Brown, Jericho

Please

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jericho Brown
ISBN-10: 1930974795
ISBN-13: 9781930974791
Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 69
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.40d
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Nominee
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2008 pg. 82
By Jericho Brown
By Jericho Brown
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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.

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