Gut

Winner, 2022 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeJ. Bailey Hutchinsons Gut is the dazzling debut of a born storyteller. In Hutchinsons 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, inheritancewhat it means to be from a particular place and a particular people, no matter how one might strain against thatlies at the very heart of things.