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FROM A BROKEN BOTTLE TRACES OF PERFUME STILL EMANATE.
Author: From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
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From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811218443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The great American jazz novel of "such exquisite rhythmic lyricism" (Bookforum) by National Book Award Winner Nathaniel Mackey.
Atet A.D.
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872863828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Spectacular third work in Mackey's ongoing epistolary fiction about modern jazz.
Djbot Baghostus's Run
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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 part, on the band's search for a new drummer. But this search, which begins with a revolution among the women of the group, and ends in a series of remarkable coincidences and eerie transcendental experiences, is also a search for everything that art (music and writing in this case) is and serves as an emblem for. Each letter spans an extraordinary range of voices and discourses, from philosophical to folkloric to erotic - with music always the connecting thread. Jazz for Mackey clearly is a cosmological and spiritual experience, on which signifies all those possibilities that lie beyond N.'s improvisations of a saxophone riff. At every level, intellectual, spiritual, sexual, and just plain gut, Djbot Baghosthus's Run is a masterwork of contemporary storytelling, a wonder that will haunt the emotions and arouse the intellect.
Bass Cathedral
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book Award, presents his fourth volume in his ongoing great American jazz novel with no beginning or end.
Late Arcade
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226611
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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).
Bedouin Hornbook
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Splay Anthem
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book 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 Andalucía, from Ethiopia to Vienna--in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance.
Blue Fasa
Author: Nathaniel MackeyPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811224451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
