High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett Pavilion Poetry / pulling up the side

/ pulling up the side zip

a focus on details

a character who has appeared in Mark Waldron's previous books

These are poems on the hunt for language to speak of intergenerational resilience and the power offered up by ancestors and perceptive children

High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett Pavilion Poetry / pulling up the sideJust 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.