Far District: Poems by Hutchinson, Ishion

Far District: Poems

"A marvelous book of generous, giving poems." --Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth Far...
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Author: Ishion Hutchinson
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Far District: Poems by Hutchinson, Ishion

Far District: Poems

BD$25.66

Far District: Poems

BD$25.66
Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"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."

Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374604820


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2024 pg. 9

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.

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