High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett letters Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet

Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet

heroes and martyrs

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High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett letters Eliot Prize-shortlisted poetJust inside the tracks concentric circus rings, at the football fields head, is where I learned to wear the gaze of other people like a queen wears feathers. 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 lenses of myth, pop culture, and that most transcendent of sports the high jump.