Nathaniel Mackey, Author . City Lights $13.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-87286-382-8
This third volume of Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
series returns to the story of the Mystic Horn Society, a musical outfit that seem to court supernatural disaster at every turn. Like its predecessors, Bedouin...
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Nathaniel Mackey, Author . New Directions $15.95 (126p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1652-4
Published in installments across several decades, Mackey's two epic series—one called Mu, the other Song of the Andoumboulou—bring the attitudes of free jazz and the reverberating patterns of West African ensemble music to the goals...
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Nathaniel Mackey, Author City Lights Books $12.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-87286-341-5
Mackey's third book of poems continues the exquisite ""Song of the Andouboulou"" cycle inaugurated in his first book, Eroding Witness, and continued through his second, 1993's School of Udhra, also published by City Lights. With a poetic line that...
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Nathaniel Mackey, Author University of Illinois Press $9.95 (99p) ISBN 978-0-252-01230-3
African religion, anthropology and folklore provide inspiration for this young black poet, who casts himself in the role of a modern griotthe storyteller/shaman whose songs are sacred to his people. The poems have a grandiose quality to them,...
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Nathaniel Mackey. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1946-4
Mackey’s last poetry collection, Splay Anthem, won the National Book Award, and this 16th collection (if one counts prose and verse together) picks up his musical epics in medias res. It is not necessary, however, to track all the characters and...
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Nathaniel Mackey. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2445-1
Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for poetry, “continues Nod House’s continuation of Splay Anthem and the work that came before it” as he extends two interwoven and ongoing serial poems: Song of Andoumboulou and “Mu.” Commanding in...
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Nathaniel Mackey. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2660-8
In the fifth installment of the From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate series, Mackey (Splay Anthem) revisits members of Molimo m’Atet, an invented experimental jazz ensemble based in Los Angeles. The novel expands through a series of...
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Nathaniel Mackey, Author, Wilson Harris, Preface by . New Directions $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1720-0
In the fourth installment of this National Book Award–winning poet and novelist’s ongoing epistolary work of fiction, Mackey (Splay Anthem
) is never shy of the unwieldy or the recondite, plunging readers into the heady thoughts of N.,...
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Nathaniel Mackey. New Directions, $65 (1,068p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3062-9
This massive, three-volume box set is not for the casual Mackey (Blue Fasa) reader: each of the three books is what the National Book Award–winning poet considers a “double book.” Mackey’s poetry is rooted in jazz (the book is structured in part...
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