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SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024 In High Jump as Icarus Story, Gustav Parker Hibbett gifts us visions of flight and falling. This stunningly accomplished debut deconstructs and redefines notions of Blackness, queerness, and masculinity through the lens of myth, pop culture, and that most transcendent of sports - the high jump. Formally inventive, these poems speak in a capacious voice which can be vulnerable, fragmented, and rapturous; exhorting us to imagine and reimagine our possible selves while navigating a labyrinthine America that conjures its young into monsters. Taking us from the arroyos of New Mexico to a West Cork farm in winter, these meditations on beauty and the elusive nature of love are insightful, and hard-won. Here, the spirit triumphs, even when body falls: 'having/ reached for sunlight,/ even if I failed to hold it.'

About the Author :
Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Originally from New Mexico, they are currently pursuing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. They are a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow, a 2022 Djanikian Scholars Semifinalist, and a 32 Poems Featured Emerging Poet. They were selected as a runner-up for The Missouri Review's 2022 Poem of the Year award. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Guernica, fourteen poems, The Stinging Fly, London Magazine, Adroit, and elsewhere.

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"High Jump as Icarus Story is a radiant book of flight and triumph, equally at home in myth and in our dilapidated world. Coming of age, coming into desire, forging a self in life and on the page - these are the poem's transformations. 'If paradigms don't fit,' Gustav Parker Hibbett writes, 'it's okay to customize them.' Their debut collection is persuasive, original, and glorious." - Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers"A tender and ambitious work that touches upon the functions of gender, race, love, friendship, artistry and music. There is a glistening intelligence throughout in the leaps and risks that Hibbett takes across disciplines and bodies of knowledge." - Victoria Adukwei Bulley"These are poems of real grace, poems in which the intellect and form are harmonised and made to move together. Gods and mythic figures provide the relief-work and architecture for a moving exploration of Blackness, the body, philosophy and so much more. Stylish, tender, playful and rigorous all at once, in this collection Parker Hibbett proves themselves to be one of our most compelling new voices." - Sean Hewitt"Throughout this exhilarating debut, Hibbett explores the joy and release of athletic endeavour as well as the inevitable anxieties of inhabiting a queer, Black body in the 21st century, a body 'made to bear the fears of other people'. With lyrics as supple and agile as the subject matter, these poems are a gift, both muscular and beguiling."- Dylan Brennan "From the opening moments of this collection, there is an inexorable sense of movement as Gustav Parker Hibbett, 'an artist above the crossbar', takes us beyond the sure-footed territory of athleticism and its celebrated status that smooths all paths with its singular focus, into questions about masculinity, race and sexuality that leave us briefly afloat before we come back down to earth." - David Toms


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  • ISBN-13: 9781739397951
  • Publisher: Banshee Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Banshee Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1739397959
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jul 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 112


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