Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional ...
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 Andalucia, from Ethiopia to Vienna--in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance. Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new ...
An anthology of jazz-influenced writing, this book includes selections from James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Michael Ondaatje, Amiri Baraka, Al Young, Thulani Davis, and Amus Mor, among others. This book also contains photographs of jazz musicians at work.
School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however, is only one of the strands of world revery these poems have recourse to. They obey a "bedouin" impulse of their own-fugitive, moving on, nomadic. Ogo ...
Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments 16 through 35 of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his two previous books. Named after a Dogon funeral song whose raspy tonalities prelude rebirth, Song of the ...
Highlighting Nathaniel Mackey's multifaceted work, this book embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman's interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experiential writing; from Kamau Brathwaite's "calibanistic" language practices to Federico Garcia Lorca's flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H.D ...
The first in a series of epistolary fiction that has long been out of print. The main character, N., is a composer and musician in a band called the Mystic Horn Society.
Djbot Baghosthus's Run is the second volume of Mackey's ongoing epistolary fiction, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. 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. Djbot Baghosthus's Run is centered, in ...
Poetry. African American Studies. Back in stock in limited quantities. "Eroding Witness" was selected by Michael S. Harper as one of five volumes published in 1985 in the National Poetry Series. "I wake up mumbling, I'm / not at the music's / mercy think damned / if I'm not, but / keep the thought / to myself" ("Capricorn Rising"). Nathaniel ...
The first in a series of epistolary fiction that has long been out of print. The main character, N., is a composer and musician in a band called the Mystic Horn Society.
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