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Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose) |  | Author: Jericho Brown
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Category: Book
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Edition: First
Pages: 69
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1930974795
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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.
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a musical canon January 5, 2009
M. D. Moore (Harvey, La USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Can I say that I love the organization of this book? I sat down, enthralled to read, then bounced back to the Table of Contents to look for poems that I know. Noticed the musical phrasing and then bounced back to the poems. Noticed the Linear Notes and bounced back to the poems again, now informed and ready to dive into their meanings deeper. I love this collection. It has so many levels.
Seeking to speak the unspoken thoughts of the African American and the male February 10, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
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A doctor of Creative Writing, Jericho Brown steps into the world of poetry with "Please". Seeking to speak the unspoken thoughts of the African American and the male, his verse seeks to explain the actions and ideas that men of one or the other belong to. "Please" is poignant and realistic writing, and an excellently entertaining read. "Open": I often lie open as a field. Sharecroppers have no fixed names.
Couldn't sit it down. May 20, 2009
Tara Cunningham (Baton Rouge, LA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jericho's poems are literary genius. He takes you into his heart and his mind and leaves you yearning for more.
Can't wait for the next book!
Exquisite Poetry October 8, 2009
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
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Brown, Jericho. "Please", New Issues Press, 2009.
Exquisite Poetry
Amos Lassen
"Please" is my first meeting with Jericho Brown but I am sure that it is not my last. He is a poet that is totally aware of who his audience is. He begins by telling us who he is and he pulls us into his world. He shows us the redemptive power of art very simply with the line, "Call me bitch and I'll sing the whole night long". He gives us pain redeemed by art. He tells stories through his poetry and his poems are intimate and 100% efficient. He takes on hurt and he loves to reflect and describe. His language is elegant and sublime. Brown is a poet that you will read and reread and find him relevant with each look. He shares his feelings with us and we want to do the same with him.
Gorgeous outside and inside February 18, 2009
Mary Akers (Western NY United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lyrical, musical, rhythmic and passionate, Jericho Brown's beautifully packaged PLEASE is a sustained pleasure to read.
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