Fugitive tilts : essays / Ishion Hutchinson.
| Author/creator | Hutchinson, Ishion author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | viii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2024038332 |
| ISBN | 9780374600518 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0374600511 hardcover |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR9265.9 .H85 F84 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |