Fugitive tilts : essays /
"Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut"--
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.