The Minority Experience In Jericho Brown's Poems

Each poem by Jericho Brown projects many different challenges of being minority and experiencing severities related to these trials. I feel like through his poems author trying to give readers an understanding of how painful it feels to be different from people around. Author explaining and projecting the minority experience through sore, painful and agonizing experiences, because these type of feelings could be related to any reader, in my opinion. All of us have feelings of being exhausted times to times, all of us have been experienced lows in life, and in that undesirable moments we tend to feel that it is nobody who understands, that we left alone in the sorrow, however by reading Browns poems it is easy to see that the pain experiences by speakers` are very related to your, and could have been experienced by anybody else. By the fact of relating speakers` painful experiences to readers` sorrow moments, an understanding of speakers` point of view appears, which is, in my opinion, is the main purpose of almost all literature related to minority experience.
Speakers` experiences related to consequences of being a racial minorities, related to issues of black identity, avoidance of it, as in “Detailing the nape”, “Robert”, “Rick”, and “Family Portrait” poems. Also, Brown engages a sexism, homophobia, and misrepresentation topics, which are related to representatives of LGBT community, who are also group of minorities in our society (“Lunch”, “Family Portrait”). Troubles of being a member of abusive family, experiencing violent attitude from other family member also one of the themes in Brown`s poems (“Song for you”, “Runaway”), in that case author shows that anybody could experience consequences even by being minority in smallest unit of society, as