Splay Anthem

Splay Anthem PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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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.

Splay Anthem

Splay Anthem PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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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.

Bass Cathedral

Bass Cathedral PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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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

Late Arcade PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226611
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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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).

Blue Fasa

Blue Fasa PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811224451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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

A Sense of Regard PDF Author: Laura McCullough
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347612
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Book Description
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.

Orphic Bend

Orphic Bend PDF Author: Robert L. Zamsky
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081736014X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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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

Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry PDF Author: Jason Lagapa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319552848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Book Description
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.

Nod House

Nod House PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: New Directions Paperbook
ISBN: 9780811219464
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Presents poetry by Nathaniel Mackey.

Whatsaid Serif

Whatsaid Serif PDF Author: Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872863415
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
Exquisite recipes that push the boundaries of vegan cuisine

A Community Writing Itself

A Community Writing Itself PDF Author: Sarah Rosenthal
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 156478620X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Book Description
A Community Writing Itself features internationally respected writers Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser, Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Glück, and Barbara Guest, and important younger writers Truong Tran, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, and Elizabeth Robinson. The book fills a major gap in contemporary poetics, focusing on one of the most vibrant experimental writing communities in the nation. The writers discuss vision and craft, war and peace, race and gender, individuality and collectivity, and the impact of the Bay Area on their work.