Ishion Hutchinson
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust
8 settembre 2017–27 luglio 2018
Professione
Professor, Department of English, Cornell University
Titolo del progetto
School by the Cliff
Descrizione del progetto
I will be working on book-length sequence which bears my landscape’s struggle between the two degrading economies of plantation slavery and modern tourism. Most of the confrontation is situated on a school built on a cliff; children see the future from a perilous height. They fall often, testing earth. The poem attempts to hold true to, with credible imagination, their endurance, in light of past and ongoing atrocities.