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The New Testament

by Jericho Brown

The New Testament

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The New Testament is Jericho Brown's second collection of poetry.

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A Collection Of Poems That Offers An Unlikely Kind Of Hope

October 18, 2014 • In his second poetry collection, The New Testament, Jericho Brown weaves together strains of religious invocations with his uneasy identity as a southern, gay, black man into a beguiling self myth.

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