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Please (2008)

by Jericho Brown(Favorite Author)

4.29 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1930974795 (ISBN13: 9781930974791)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

New Issues Poetry Press

review 1: I'm biased, as I know Jericho from my time in Houston. But in re-reading this book, I remembered how much I admire these poems. My favorite moments are the most defiant ones, and for all of the singing and praising that happens in the book, I'm most moved by the poet's anger. But that probably says more about me than it does Jericho's poetry. Anyway, if people haven't read this collection yet, they ought to.
review 2: There are three sections of poems in this book, with each section titled after a button on a stereo, though obviously they’re also words with resonance: REPEAT, and PAUSE, and POWER. Music, both as trope and as thing, the idea of song and actual songs and musicians, figure heavily. As for the poems themselves, I like how they’re smart and ... moreconversational, I like their wryness, and I like that they’re poems that tell stories. There’s casual violence in these poems, a father beating his son with a leather belt, a backhanded slap across the cheek, and racism and dirt and grit and cockroaches teeming in the kitchen, but that isn’t to say they’re unpleasant to read. less

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