About this title: 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 collection of poems, "Splay Anthem," takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections--"Braid," "Fray," and "Nub" (one referent Mackey notes in his stellar Introduction: "the imperial, flailing republic of Nub the United States has ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2006-05-31
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
Description: Fine. 0811216527. Winner of the National Book Award for poetry. A collection of poetry divided into three sections including "Braid, " "Fray, " and "Nub" and features two ongoing serial poems that have evolved throughout more than twenty years, such as a West African spirit song and an exploration of a lost "we" tribe. read more
Description: Fair. 0811216527 This book belonged to a library and includes a catalog number, card slot and several library stickers, stamps and marks. Customer Satisfaction is our priority. We understand that Customers EXPECT communication, a delivery tracking number, fast shipping, secure & professional packing and an accurate description. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
Description: Fine. New Directions 2006 Prerelease version. From Published in installments across several decades, Mackey's two epic series--one called Mu, the other Song of the Andoumboulou--bring the attitudes ofjazz and the reverberating patterns of West African ensemble music to the goals of the American encyclopedic long poem a la Charles Olson. The mysterious, even hermetic, new verse extends both of Mackey's epics, even (as his prose foreword explains) merging them, so that they form one enormous ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
Description: 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, beaut... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216524ISBN:0811216527
Description: A new collection of works by a Whiting Writer's Award-winning poet is divided into three sections including Braid, Fray, and Nub and features two ongoing serial poems that have evolved throughout more than twenty years, such as a West African spirit song and an exploration of a lost we tribe. Original. read more
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