Gut

Poems

J. Bailey Hutchinson

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781610757713
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Poesie

Winner, 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

J. Bailey Hutchinson's Gut is the dazzling debut of a born storyteller. In Hutchinson's poems, which explore the substance of personal history, family attains the mysterious stature of folklore, while the vast worlds of nature and of the imagination abound with extraordinary creatures that likewise elude full understanding. For the voracious consciousness at work here, inheritance—what it means to be from a particular place and a particular people, no matter how one might strain against that—lies at the very heart of things.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Things Dying and Where
• J. Bailey Hutchinson Prays to the River
• Heat Advisory
• Learning to Swim in the Mississippi
• Big Dark
• Ouroboros as Eight-Year-Old
• Self-Portrait as Tomoe Mami, Beheaded by a Witch
• Eat
• The Minnesota State Fair’s Miracle of Birth Center, Sponsored by Subaru
• J. Bailey Hutchinson Takes Plan B in Marseille
• I Have Never Had to Love Someone Who Beat Me
• Obituary
• Barbara
• The Holes
• Everyone Was Diagnosed with ADHD in the Nineties
• Real Good Meat Eater
• The Butcher’s Granddaughter
• My Dad Has Sleep Apnea and Has a Gun in His Nightstand
• Things Dying and Where
• Poem Written as Barter for $366.12 in Outstanding Bills
• Dog Not Deer
• Self-Portrait as Haruno Sakura, Kunoichi of Konohagakure
• Carne e Spirito
• Became My Body, Too
• Poem Written as Barter for $75.00 in Outstanding Bills
• Lineage
• Things Dying and Where
• Tennessee Wildman
• Fox Song
• Self-Portrait as Lin, Who Knows the Bathhouse
• Discourse
• Butterflies Are More Metal than Moths
• J. Bailey Hutchinson Moves 658.8 Miles North and Tries to Make It Count
• Notes