Ishion Hutchinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-17302-9
“History is dismantled music; slant,/ bleak on gravel,” Hutchinson (Far District) writes in a second collection that sees him profiting highly from Emily Dickinson’s dictum to tell the truth but tell it slant. In poetic suites more narrative and...
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Ishion Hutchinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-61026-5
Hutchinson’s potent, memorializing third collection (after House of Lords and Commons) is written in “contrapuntal versets,” to use his term, that blend the fates of volunteer soldiers from the West Indies serving in WWI with the experiences of...
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Ishion Hutchinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $33 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-60051-8
In this erudite collection, Hutchinson (School of Instructions), a NBCC Award–winning poet, ruminates on colonialism, diasporic identity, and home. The sea serves as a recurring motif in essays that encompass Hutchinson’s fond recollections of...
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