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.
Awards
Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2008. Short-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2009.



Book Information
ISBN 9781930974791
Author Jericho Brown
Format Paperback
Page Count 69
Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
Publisher Western Michigan University, New Issues Press