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    Gut: Poems
    Gut: Poems
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    Gut: Poems

    By J. Bailey Hutchinson

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2022
    ISBN9781610757713
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      Gut - J. Bailey Hutchinson

      Miller Williams Poetry Series

      EDITED BY PATRICIA SMITH

      GUT

      POEMS

      J. Bailey Hutchinson

      The University of Arkansas Press

      Fayetteville

      2022

      Copyright © 2022 by The University of Arkansas Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book should be used or reproduced in any manner without prior permission in writing from the University of Arkansas Press or as expressly permitted by law.

      ISBN: 978-1-68226-202-3

      eISBN: 978-1-61075-771-3

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      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by Liz Lester

      ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Hutchinson, J. Bailey, author.

      Title: Gut: poems / J. Bailey Hutchinson.

      Description: Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2022. |

      Series: Miller Williams poetry series | Summary: In Gut—winner of the first Miller Williams Poetry Prize selected by Patricia Smith—poet J. Bailey Hutchinson explores the substance of personal history—Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021047925 (print) | LCCN 2021047926 (ebook) | ISBN 9781682262023 (paperback; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781610757713 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3608.U85946 G88 2022 (print) | LCC PS3608.U85946 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23/eng/20211001

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021047925

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021047926

      for family

      . . . oh clumsy, oh bumblefucked

      oh giddy, oh dumbstruck . . .

         —Ross Gay

      CONTENTS

      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

      SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE

      I believe that all of us, every poet everywhere, can point to one mortifying moment of clueless ambition, when we decided that it was a snazzy idea to skip several thousand steps in our poetic evolution. After all, we were the annoying kids who bragged that we could and would memorize the entire dictionary, one page a day. (I threw in the towel at abattoir. You?)

      Undeterred by the failure to master the all of our language, I once again succumbed to an unbridled zeal. Once I chose poetry as my way to walk through the world, and anxious to get down to business, I decided that I’d teach myself prosody and form in one big ol’ fell swoop. Who needed classrooms and seminars and actual instruction? I’d picked up the enticing tome Patterns of Poetry, by some guy named Miller Williams, in the best lil’ bookstore in Chicago, and I’d set aside a whole month to memorize everything in its pages.

      Imagine—an entire month to master iambs, dactyls, anapests, pyrrhus, spondees, trochees and amphibrachs, as well as sapphics, the elegiac couplet, englyn penfyr, dipodic quatrain, awdyl gywydd, clerihew, terza rima, cyhydedd hir, rhupunt, and—well, the sonnet, of course.

      This Williams person, whoever he was (remember that I was—shall we say, oblivious to everything except my own naked desire to POET), had gathered all that juicy knowledge between two covers, and all I had to do was sit down and pick it up. I imagined him on a misty mountainside somewhere, wallowing

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