The New Testament

Honored as a 'Best Book of 2014' by Library Journal



Honored as a 'Standout Book of 2014' by American Poet magazine



Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry



Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, 2015



In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast.