School of Instructions: A Poem - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374613976ISBN-10:374613974UPC:9780374613976Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, AmericanSize:8.22 x 5.48 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCBA2R6WDZ
School of Instructions: A Poem
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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374613976ISBN-10:374613974UPC:9780374613976Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, AmericanSize:8.22 x 5.48 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCBA2R6WDZ
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Writers' Award, among others. Hutchinson is a...
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