School of Instructions: A Poem
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Book Overview A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I. Deep-dyed in language both s...
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 and odic, epochal and lyrical, the triumph of School of Instructions is how it confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and etches shards of remembrances into a form of survival.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 112 | Language: English | Publisher: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX | ISBN: 0374613974
FormatPaperback
Pages112
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0374613974
EAN9780374613976
PublisherFARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Publication Date2024-11-12
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.26 Pounds
Length8.22 Inches
Width5.48 Inches
Height0.35 Inches
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