num_pages: 73
description: In The New Testament Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race masculinity and sexuality. These poems bear witness to survival in the face of brutality while also elegizing two brothers haunted by shame two lovers hounded by death and an America wounded by war and numbered by religion. Brown summons myth fable and fairytale not to merely revise the Biblemore so to write the kind of lyric poetry we find at the source of redemptionfor the profane and for the sacred.
language: English
title: The New Testament
publisher: Copper Canyon Press