Fugitive Tilts: Essays

Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and...
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Fugitive Tilts: Essays by Hutchinson, Ishion

Fugitive Tilts: Essays

$33.00

Fugitive Tilts: Essays

$33.00
Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.

In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists--from Treasure Island, to John Coltrane, to the Jamaican music of his youth--that look over him with an angel's aura.

Drawing inspiration from Derek Walcott's notion that "the sea is history," Fugitive Tilts is suffused with the sea, present whether Hutchinson is recalling a trip to Senegal or memorializing his grandmother in a meditation on a painting by Édouard Vuillard. With this fresh, archipelagic sensibility Hutchinson confronts the fraught questions of inheritances and influences, "acknowledging," in his words, "something outside our view." These essays, varied in their forms and ranging across time and place, allow Hutchinson to build a space from which the suffering of the past and the present can be reckoned with and survived.

Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780374600518


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/24/2025
Booklist 02/07/2025

About the Author
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, which won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award; House of Lords and Commons, which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; and School of Instructions, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award, and a Windham Campbell Prize in Poetry, among other honors. He is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.

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