Book · September 14, 2018
Poetry. Reprint of Nathanial Mackey's first book of poetry, selected by Michael Harper in 1985 as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and published by University of Illinois Press. With a new preface by Joseph Donahue. ...
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Book · March 15, 2018
Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. ...
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Book · February 28, 2017
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 ...
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Book · November 15, 2016
"Lay Ghost, a set of eight poems drawn from Nathaniel Mackey’s intertwined and continuous serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu,” epitomizes the roving, ruminative poetics that have continued to animate his “long song,” ... ...
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Book · October 1, 2015
Chapbook. This set of four poems is taken from "Tej Bet", the book that will follow "Blue Fasa" (New Directions, 2015), extending the "Mu"/"Song of the Andoumboulou" thread to "Song of the Andoumboulou: 160" ...
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Book · May 5, 2015
A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s hard bop classic ... ...
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Book · September 2, 2014
From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate is an ongoing series of letters written by composer/multi-instrumentalist N., founding member of a band known as the Molimo m'Atet. Volumes one through four are Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, A ...
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Book · March 1, 2014
Drawing inspiration and language from such spiritual traditions as Hinduism, Gnosticism, and the Dogon of Mali, OUTER PRADESH is a brand new collection of poetry from American poet Nathaniel Mackey. ...
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Book · August 1, 2001
A3166 A94 2001 813'.54— dc21 00-065638 CITY LIGHTS BOOKS are edited by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters and published at the City Lights
Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133. Atet A.D is volume
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Book · September 24, 1993
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Discrepant Engagement addresses work by black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. ...
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Book · August 1, 1993
'Purgatorial stealth' (as School of Udhra puts it), w ithin a startling progression, 1
find, of imageries, becomes the poem's enigmatic, seductive, sometimes
wavering, sliding traverse ot a spiritual wilderness. I have no doubt that the book ...
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Book · 1993
Like the first volume, Bedouin Hornbook, this work is written by the composer/multi-instrumentalist N., a founding member of a jazz group known as the Mystic Horn Society. ...
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