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School of Instructions

Af: Ishion Hutchinson Engelsk Hardback

School of Instructions

Af: Ishion Hutchinson Engelsk Hardback
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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, epochal and lyrical, School of Instructions confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and weaves shards of remembrance—"your word mass / your mix match / your jamming of elements"—into a unique form of survival. It is a masterpiece of imaginative recuperation by a poet of prodigious gifts.

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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, epochal and lyrical, School of Instructions confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and weaves shards of remembrance—"your word mass / your mix match / your jamming of elements"—into a unique form of survival. It is a masterpiece of imaginative recuperation by a poet of prodigious gifts.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 93
ISBN-13: 9780374610265
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0374610266
Udg. Dato: 21 nov 2023
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 220mm
Højde: 145mm
Forlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Oplagsdato: 21 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Ishion Hutchinson
Forfatter(e) Ishion Hutchinson


Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter


ISBN-13 9780374610265


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 93


Udgave


Længde 16mm


Bredde 220mm


Højde 145mm


Udg. Dato 21 nov 2023


Oplagsdato 21 nov 2023


Forlag Farrar Straus & Giroux

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