{"product_id":"school-of-instructions-a-poem-9780374613976","title":"School of Instructions: A Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's \u003ci\u003eSchool of Instructions \u003c\/i\u003ememorializes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElegiac and odic, epochal and lyrical, the triumph of \u003ci\u003eSchool of Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e is how it confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and etches shards of remembrances into a form of survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ishion Hutchinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.48w x 0.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374613976","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43111809974409,"sku":"9780374613976","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9bdb1de0-adfc-4155-ac6b-d2ff668db4f0.jpg?v=1730795543","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/school-of-instructions-a-poem-9780374613976","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}