| #558614 in Books | New Directions | 2006-05-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.45 x6.06l,.48 | File type: PDF | 112 pages | ||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| a poet's singing|By Case Quarter|the river that runs thru it, thru all of it, it being the writings of nathaniel mackey, his poetry and what prose i've read by him, is jazz, mostly free jazz. poetry on the page when it professes to be music, a specific music, unless the specific piece intended is present, or known by the reader, is there for the mercy of individual interpretati|From Publishers Weekly|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
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.
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...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Splay Anthem | Nathaniel Mackey. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
