Fugitive tilts : essays /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hutchinson, Ishion (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.