Ishion Hutchinson

The Anabasis of Godspeed

A Poet in the Academy

“My experience of writing essays as a poet is like Milton’s notion of his prose being the achievement of his left hand.”

Far Away

When I moved from Kingston to New York, V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival became part of my internal rhythm of resistance in the city, my bulwark against losing the gift of fantasy. 

The Noble Fish

No traces exist to point me to my African origin, but I knew that the sea around Senegal’s coast constituted a leg of the Middle Passage.

Overwinter

Reliving the Funeral

David

a poem