Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown's "Invention" (poems and analysis)

[judytuna]

ok, now a post of judy’s reactions to this blog post.

remember, this was written by Brown in April 2019:

@judytuna

I do wish we’d talk more seriously about what the flu really is. Everyone I knew up until the winter of 2017-2018 would discuss it as if it were a very bad cold. But that particular flu season, so many people died of the illness that everyone I knew was telling me to be careful. People were suddenly talking about the flu as if it were a car accident I could avoid: “Be careful.”

reading it now makes my heart constrict and i want to cry but i’m not crying yet. fuck.

i have never heard of the ghazal before.

@judytuna

I keep everything. And every day of my life, I try to use and repurpose lines that haven’t found themselves in a poem.

this is what we do here! as in here at talkgroup, and in our little blaughs! isn’t it?

the poems are devastating.

@judytuna

Of course, I hope that you’ll read The Tradition , and I’d love for you to write a duplex. In the meantime, stay alive. Drink water. Read poems. Be good to your friends. Take care of yourself.

okay.