Welcome to Book Bar's official Poetry Club. This club is part book club and part workshop/writers' group, led in part by local authors. The first half of the meeting will be spent discussing the poetry book of the month, and the second half will be spent sharing/workshopping each other's poetry (if you'd like to bring some to share - it's optional). For February, the selected book is The Tradition by Jericho Brown (book description is located at the bottom of this listing).
So come out, grab a drink at our beverage bar, and join us for a lively discussion! When you purchase this club pick from us, your support will help us be here for a long time and put on more events! Purchasing options are below:
In Store: Stop by our location at 50 N. Railroad St. in Palmyra, PA!
Shipped: To purchase from Bookshop and get it delivered straight to your door, order from the following link: https://bookshop.org/a/98905/9781556594861(If you purchase here, we will receive a percentage of this sale).
Ebook: Bookshop now offers Ebooks for indie booksellers. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/a/98905/9781619321953 (we will receive a percentage of this sale).
Audiobook: You can purchase audiobooks from us on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/bookbarus. This audiobook can be easily found on our Feb 2025 Book Club Picks playlist on that webpage! (we will receive a percentage of this sale)
We will select our next read at the end of the meeting for the following month. We look forward to seeing you!
Book Description:
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.