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""Hutchinson expresses a deep love of prose, of its grand possibilities and subtle confinements. This collection represents his earnest and thrilling mission to efface the line between poetry and prose, to introduce us to the possibility that each is affirmed and made complete by the other."" --Tope Folarin, New York Magazine ""In this erudite collection, Hutchinson, a NBCC Award-winning poet, ruminates on colonialism, diasporic identity, and home. . . . Hutchinson elegantly probes the painful history of Atlantic slavery with a potent combination of intimate personal reflections and sophisticated artistic exegesis."" --Publishers Weekly ""Hutchinson's first book of prose is a miscellany containing a myriad. . . . Praise brings out Hutchinson's finest. Pieces about photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi, artists Donald Rodney and Nari Ward, and poets Les Murray, George Seferis, and Claude McKay instance ecstatic ekphrasis. The essay about his move to Kingston for college harrows, while the essay on Frederick Douglass flames."" --Michael Autrey, Booklist ""This is what you hope a poet's prose debut will be. . . a wide-ranging and deeply personal collection of essays that engages deeply with art, poetry, and history, all with the kind of attention to language that makes you grateful for poets who grace us with prose. "" --LitHub ""Poet Hutchinson's essays swoosh and roll like the sea that has surrounded and molded his life and art, from his beginnings in Jamaica to his coastal journeys on to his belief that ocean waters ultimately connect us all through suffering and joy. Whether his eye turns to childhood literature like ""Treasure Island,"" reggae music, or an Impressionist painting, the author connects his influences to the wider world of art, community and our shared humanity. "" -- Bethanne Patrick, The Los Angeles Times

""In this erudite collection, Hutchinson, a NBCC Award-winning poet, ruminates on colonialism, diasporic identity, and home. . . . Hutchinson elegantly probes the painful history of Atlantic slavery with a potent combination of intimate personal reflections and sophisticated artistic exegesis."" --Publishers Weekly ""Hutchinson's first book of prose is a miscellany containing a myriad. . . . Praise brings out Hutchinson's finest. Pieces about photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi, artists Donald Rodney and Nari Ward, and poets Les Murray, George Seferis, and Claude McKay instance ecstatic ekphrasis. The essay about his move to Kingston for college harrows, while the essay on Frederick Douglass flames."" --Michael Autrey, Booklist ""This is what you hope a poet's prose debut will be. . . a wide-ranging and deeply personal collection of essays that engages deeply with art, poetry, and history, all with the kind of attention to language that makes you grateful for poets who grace us with prose. "" --LitHub ""Poet Hutchinson's essays swoosh and roll like the sea that has surrounded and molded his life and art, from his beginnings in Jamaica to his coastal journeys on to his belief that ocean waters ultimately connect us all through suffering and joy. Whether his eye turns to childhood literature like ""Treasure Island,"" reggae music, or an Impressionist painting, the author connects his influences to the wider world of art, community and our shared humanity. "" -- Bethanne Patrick, The Los Angeles Times

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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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