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

BD$25.53

School of Instructions: A Poem

BD$25.53
Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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

Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions memorializes the experience of West Indian soldiers volunteering in British regiments in the Middle East during World War I. The poem narrates the psychic and physical terrors of these young Black fighters in as they struggle against the colonial power they served; their story overlaps with that of Godspeed, a schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s. This visionary collision, in which the horizontal, documentary shape of the narrative is interrupted by sudden lyric effusions, unsettles both time and event, mapping great moments of heroism onto the trials of everyday existence It reshapes grand gestures of heroism in 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: 11/12/2024
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.48w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780374613976

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

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