Fugitive tilts : essays / Ishion Hutchinson.

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