High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett #foliosociety Tea and Supper

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PaperbackPublication: 6 Oct 2016

He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does

High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett #foliosociety Tea and SupperSHORTLISTED 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;