essays exploring themes of home, displacement, and memory for deep personal resonance
homage to literary influences such as Derek Walcott for enriched cultural context
spans time, place, and form to offer diverse perspectives and experiences
winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for House of Lords and Commons
beautifully written prose and vivid imagery for an immersive reading experience
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Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.
In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections