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Fugitive tilts : essays / Ishion Hutchinson.
Van Pelt Library PR9265.9.H85 F84 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutchinson, Ishion, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays.
- Memory.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Treasure Island and me
- First reading
- An exquisite simulacrum: remembering Philip Levine
- The search for a faun
- Far away: Naipaul and Walcott
- In my room
- Catch a fire: Jamaica at fifty in Toronto
- Women sweeping
- Leviathan in the sun: on Les Murray
- Blood and ink: on George Seferis
- See the birds in my mouth: remembering Vaughn Benjamin
- The trauma of joy: Wilson Harris's Guyana Quartet
- The concept of dread: a listening to Lee "Scratch" Perry in Zurich, with Lorenzo Bernet
- Lucas
- Dreams of stone: Lalibela
- The noble fish: Dakar
- Praise singer: on Akinbode Akinbiyi
- Splash crowns: on Donald Rodney
- Bottle torches: a fantasia on Nari Ward
- The fire thus kindled, may be kindled again: the figure of Frederick Douglass
- Unbending progress: on Claude McKay
- The bearing of the island
- A voice at the edge of the sea: an interview with Derek Walcott
- The classics can console?
- A room in August town
- Rough water: a Senegal diary.
- ISBN:
- 9780374600518
- 0374600511
- OCLC:
- 1463561667
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