Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Jericho Brown's 3 books and 132 poems



As I was reading Jericho Brown's new volume The Tradition, I was looking back on his previous books. I was jotting down titles so decided to pull together a list of all 132 of his poems published in the 3 books.

The Tradition (2019)  -- 52 poems
As a Human Being
Flower
The Microscopes
The Tradition
Hero
After Another Country
The Water Lilies
Foreday in the Morning
The Card Tables
Bullet Points
Duplex
The Trees
Second Language
After Avery R. Young
A Young Man
Duplex
Riddle
Good White People
Correspondence
Trojan
The Legend of Big and Fine
The Peaches
Night Shift
Shovel
The Long Way
Dear Whiteness
Of the Swan
Entertainment Industry
Stake
Layover
Duplex
Of My Fury
After Essex Hemphill
Stay
A.D.
Turn You Over
The Virus
The Rabbits
Monotheism
Token
The Hammers
I Know What I Love
Crossing
Deliverance
Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Dark
Duplex
Thighs and Ass
Cakewalk
Stand
Duplex: Cento


The New Testament (2014)   -- 40 poems
Colosseum
Romans 12:1
Heartland
Another Elegy
Cain
Labor
The Interrogation
Paradise
To Be Seen
Langston’s Blues
‘N’em
The Ten Commandments
Homeland
Host
Football Season
The Best We Deserve
What they Holy Do
Reality Show
Willing to Pay
Dear Dr. Frankentein
Another Elegy
Motherland
I Corinthians 13:11
Hustle
Another Elegy
Obituary
Psalm 150
A Living
After the Rapture
Hebrews 13
Angel
Receiving Line
Make-Believer
Found: Messiah
Another Angel
Eden
Another Elegy
At the End of Hell
Heart Condition
Nativity

Please (2008) -- 40 poems
Track 1: Lush Life
Prayer of the Backhanded
Track 3: (Back down) Memory Lane
Track 4: Reflections
Scarecrow
Again
Autobiography
Detailing the Nape
Track 5: Summertime
Beneath Me
Herman Finley is Dead
Pause
Robert
Open
Derrick Anything But
Crickets
Grip
Fall
Morning
Tin Man
Sean
Lunch
Idea for an Album: Vandross, the Duets
Turning 26
The Burning Bush
I Have Just Picked up a Man
Lion
Betty Jackson
Rick
Dark Side of the Planet
David
Your Body Made Heavy with Gin
The Gulf
Family Portrait
My Parents Snoring
Runaway
Why I Cannot Leave You
Track 8: Song for You
Like Father
Because My Name is Jericho

Related:
A Notebook on Jericho Brown

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