Tradition

Questioning, facing, uprooting, in racist society and in the personal past. Ganymede, Bullet Points, and Stake were standout to me.

Gorgeous and vulnerable collection of poems spanning an entire landscape of experience. Jericho Brown can move from delicate to hardened so effortlessly and so inevitably. Reading these poems, it is difficult not to feel like you are sitting close to the man and being allowed somewhere sacred.

I wanted what anyone
With an ear wants—
To be touched and
Touched by a presence
That has no hands.