Splay Anthem

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Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780811216524

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In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey's "asthmatic song of aspiration" scuttles across cultures and histories--from America to Andalucía, from Ethiopia to Vienna--in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance.

Late Arcade

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Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0811226611

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A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novel Nathaniel Mackey’s Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.’s jazz sextet, Molimo m’Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal. Over the next nine months, N.’s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble. N. suffers from what he calls “cowrie shell at- tacks”—oil spills, N.’s memory of his mother’s melancholy musical Sundays— which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention. Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey’s From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, the great American jazz novel of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (Bookforum).

Bass Cathedral

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Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780811217200

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Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book Award, presents his fourth volume in his ongoing great American jazz novel with no beginning or end.

Blue Fasa

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Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811224451

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A stellar new collection of poems by "the Balanchine of the architecture dance" (The New York Times), and winner of the National Book Award in poetry.

A Sense of Regard

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Author: Laura McCullough

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0820347612

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How do poets engage issues of race? This timely collection of essays brings together the voices of living poets and scholars, including Garrett Hongo and Major Jackson, to discuss the constraints and possibilities of racial discourse in poetic language, offering new insights on this perennially vexed issue.

Nod House

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Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: New Directions Paperbook

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811219464

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Presents poetry by Nathaniel Mackey.

Orphic Bend

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Author: Robert L. Zamsky

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 081736014X

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Opera, poetics, and the fate of humanism : Ezra Pound and Charles Bernstein -- "Measure, then, is my testament" : Robert Creeley and the poet's music -- Orpheus in the garden : John Taggart -- Eurydice takes the mic : improvisation and ensemble in the work of Tracie Morris -- "Orphic bend" : music and meaning in the work of Nathaniel Mackey.

Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry

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Author: Jason Lagapa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 3319552848

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This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable being of God. With individual chapters on works by such poets as Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley, this book illustrates how a strategy of negation similarly proves optimal for depicting the subject of utopia in literary works. Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry: Determined Negations contends that negative statements in experimental poetry illustrate the potential for utopian social change, not by portraying an ideal world itself but by revealing the very challenge of representing utopia directly.

Whatsaid Serif

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Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780872863415

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A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering

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Author: Dawn Lundy Martin

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 0820329916

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Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." Martin's poems bend the form into something new, seeing a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness is balanced by a firm grounding in bodily experience and in the amazing capacity of language to expand itself in Martin's hands. She explodes any pretense at a world where words mean exactly what we want them to mean and never more nor less -- Back cover.