High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett Pavilion Poetry chance plays a part in

chance plays a part in finding or losing people and places that are loved: a change in the weather

Sight becomes both the facilitator and impediment of desire

Can you hear the distant dragon's rumble of thunder

and throughout the natural world

this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many contemporary readers as something of a mystery

High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett Pavilion Poetry chance plays a part inJust 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.