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A stunning collection that traverses the borders of culture and time, from the 2011 winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award

In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.

These poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea. House of Lords and Commons testifies to the particular courage it takes to wade unsettled, uncertain, and unfettered in the wake of our shared human experience.

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    5.45 x 0.31 x 8.28 inches
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRY

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016

Library Journal 5 Best Poetry books of 2016

"Hutchinson’s lines listen to themselves, finding the next phrase, and then the next, implicit in what’s already been written down. His sound effects are exquisite: the clusters of consonants . . . and the vowels so open you could fall into them, the magisterial cresting syntax, the brilliant coupling of unlike words . . . [A] very promising book." ―Dan Chiasson, New Yorker

“What nerve and music his poems possess, how beautifully they chart the poet’s search. House of Lords and Commons begins the mythology of a great voice.” ―John Freeman

“To call Ishion Hutchinson a brilliant Caribbean poet is just as silly as pigeon-holing Eavan Boland an ‘Irish poet’ or Adonis a ‘poet from Syria.’ This is simply because Hutchinson comes to us from the country called music, he stuns the reader with the sheer symphony of his sentences.
I love his rage against politics (‘casting / beatitudes at the castor-oiled pimps / in Parliament; Pray for them, joyfully, / their amazing death!’) and the lyrics of childhood intimacies, of tenderness, fatherhood. To capture one of these tonalities would already have been a wonderful gift. But the fact of their abundant, generous, choral presence on these pages, tells us that we are in Hutchinson major talent. He is without a doubt one of the most gifted poets of my generation.” ―Ilya Kaminsky

“Writing about the colonial legacy of violence on the paradisiacal landscape of rural Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson is a poet of great imaginative intensity. His sponsors are Hart Crane, George Seferis, and Derek Walcott, who, like him, are luxurious and stern at once. In these poems, hammered language has a jazzy, classical, rough, painterly beauty.” ―Henri Cole

“A tensile strength runs through the vibrant abundance of Ishion Hutchinson’s work―it is the pure line of poetry, shaped by his sun-lit vision and music. Lords and Commons has been wrested from suffering and cruelty, irony and violence. And, in the end, it is an act of forgiveness.” ―Susan Stewart

About the Author

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His poetry collection Far District (2010) won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and House of Lords and Commons (2016) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Other honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner journal, and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. He is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition (September 26, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374537283
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374537289
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 0.31 x 8.28 inches
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Joan Colby
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive Heir to Walcott
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2018
Powerful, often devastating poems like the elegy in five parts: October’s Levant, reveal Hutchinson as a poet of realized promise. His imagery evokes the islands of the Caribbean
“October, inconsolable, the asphalt
Bordering the seagrass, warm and silver
In the blazing afternoon, so I know
I am alive and you are not.”

There are poems that confront inequality
“the abomination
Opulence to squalor, worsening never the inverse” (The Difference)

Hutchinson knows how to end a poem memorably
“the blue water whitens and collects you in its salt mine” (A Farther Shore)
“the train’s
beam arriving on its cold nerve of iron” (Station).
The horror of Phaeton
“an empty third eye
The bullet drilled into his forehead.”

These are poems informed by myth and history; poems that don’t dodge the elaboration of language, but welcome incantations like
“steel fronds of unsheathed Christianity speared
the soul of the arrowroot and wild maize and erected bells
rid the clanging shells of their healing.”

The music that invests each line is classical, symphonic, at times operatic.
Finally, the masterly title poem
“a furnace in my father’s voice, I prayed for the coal-stove’s
roses, a cruise ship lit like a castle
on fire in the harbor, we never walked,
Father and son…”

The passion in the lines
“Light sprinkled my hair; I rejoiced, a poui
tree hit by the sun in the room,
A man, a man”
Which concludes
“a herd of darkness gathering to passage unto Shiloh,
where the Lord of Summer lives
kindling a coal fire.”

A native of Jamaica, Hutchison is a worthy successor to the islander Derek Walcott
And we may expect more celebrated volumes from him.
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sharon burton
4.0 out of 5 stars This was quite a good collection of poems
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016
This was quite a good collection of poems; a bit on the heavy side - definitely not light and fluffy, but extremely good.
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Andrew D. Oram
5.0 out of 5 stars Memories and commentary, with lush imagery
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2017
For these poems, the author painstakingly assembled memories of places he has grown up, lived in, and traveled to, along with acerbic political and social observations and incredibly rich metaphor. "Don't get too hung up on the terms," as he says in "A March." I didn't untangle every phrase, but I found much of the book moving, and had to sit quietly for a while after the end. Most effective to me was a poem late in the book where Hutchinson softens his modernist style for a more prose-poem approach, "The Night Autobiographies of Leopold Dice."
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