Gut Poems

J. Bailey Hutchinson

Book - 2022

"In Gut-winner of the first Miller Williams Poetry Prize selected by Patricia Smith-poet J. Bailey Hutchinson explores the substance of personal history"--

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Subjects
Genres
Poetry
Autobiographical poetry
Published
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
J. Bailey Hutchinson (author)
Physical Description
xx, 80 pages ; 22 cm
Awards
Miller Williams Poetry Prize, 2022
ISBN
9781682262023
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Things Dying & 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 & 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 & 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
Review by Library Journal Review

Winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, Hutchinson's first collection makes good on its title. "Do you know/ what I mean/ when I say/ I have types/ of hunger?" asks a speaker. The appetite of these poems evince a belief in the burrowing of language, how with the right tweaks, language reveals webs of connection among family, place, and sensation. From the sensuous "mud-scent shoaling my nose" of the Mississippi River to a "borborygmi/ beneath the hum, braided into her, braided into me," the poems speculate on memory as bodily past, an exchange of both people and places. An especially thought-provoking theme is the exploration of how people contain and withstand, with firm tenderness, exuberant impulses: a mother and her jumping child; a hand inserted into the mouth of a seizing baby. Hutchinson treats language similarly, exuberantly pushing it into other shapes, a person who "panthered the porch," someone "crude-ing growed up words." VERDICT Threaded with myth and ghosts, marvelously present to the senses, with wordsmithing so inventive as to thrill, this exciting work is recommended wherever poetry is read. --Amy Dickinson

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