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Highlights
- "A marvelous book of generous, giving poems.
- About the Author: Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica.
- 112 Pages
- Poetry, Caribbean & Latin American
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About the Book
This edition originally published in 2021 by Faber and Faber Ltd, Great Britain.Book Synopsis
"A marvelous book of generous, giving poems." --Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
Far District, the transporting debut by the author of House of Lords and Commons, charts the spiritual path of a poet-speaker caught between two spheres: the culture of bush people and a luminous, dangerous sea of myth. Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology. The speaker fears the land of myth because he is loyal to the bush people, but he also desires to transcend his physical and intellectual poverty. Little by little, the two cultures come together as the speaker begins grafting childhood memories onto the realm of imagination, shaped by art, music, literature, and new glimpses of the world. Written in both traditional and formless verse, as well as in English and Jamaican patois, Far District is an indelible, urgent collection. As the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award committee said of its 2011 winner, "Far District is a classic, which is to say a rare and exemplary first book."Review Quotes
"Poetry of this quality is never belated and ever auspicious. . . Everything is alive to Hutchinson. He compares and contrasts what he finds at home in Jamaica with the colonial sense of an island without history. . . . Hutchinson is doing what every major poet does, remaking the tradition in his own image." --Michael Autrey, Booklist
About the Author
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections House of Lords and Commons, which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and School of Instructions. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Writers' Award, and a Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry, among other honors. He lives in Ithaca, New York.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 112
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Caribbean & Latin American
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Language: English
Street Date: November 12, 2024
TCIN: 91733033
UPC: 9780374604820
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-6219
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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