School of Instructions: A Poem by Hutchinson, Ishion

School of Instructions: A Poem

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I....
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Author: Ishion Hutchinson
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Language: English
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School of Instructions: A Poem by Hutchinson, Ishion

School of Instructions: A Poem

CHF 33.99

School of Instructions: A Poem

CHF 33.99
Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.

Deep-dyed in a language that is sensuous and biblical in proportion, School of Instructions centers on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during World War I. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theater and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. Simultaneity abounds: the narratives of the soldiers overlap with that of Godspeed, a young schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s. This visionary collision, written in a form Ishion Hutchinson calls "contrapuntal versets," unsettles time and event. It reshapes grand gestures of heroism into a music of supple, vigilant intensity.

Elegiac and odic, epochal and lyrical, the triumph of School of Instructions is how it confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and etches shards of remembrances into a form of survival.

Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/21/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374610265

About the Author
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and House of Lords and Commons, which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, and the Whiting Writers' Award, among others. Hutchinson is a professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.

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