‘Duplex’ by Jericho Brown explores physical and mental abuse, looking at how memory can impact a person.
This is a fantastic Jericho Brown poem. It is about the power of memory and how it shapes our sense of home and self. The speaker explores the dark demands of memory, which can be more intense than their struggles and desires.
A poem is a gesture toward home.
It makes dark demands I call my own.
Memory makes demands darker than my own:
My last love drove a burgundy car.
‘Dear Dr. Frankenstein’ is a warning against the dangers of scientific and intellectual arrogance told as a letter to the fictional doctor.
The poem 'Dear Dr. Frankenstein' is written in free verse like many of Jericho Brown's other poems. He is a writer that engages with a broad set of themes and issues, including race, memory, and power. This poem is more preoccupied with issues of science and individualism.
I, too, know the science of building men
Out of fragments in little light
Where I'll be damned if lightning don't
The Tradition is the titular poem from Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown’s poetry collection. It brings to light the maltreatment of African Americans in the present US, while relating it to the past.
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