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 become,
the shrunken place the earth has become, planet Nub")--"Splay
Anthem" weaves together two ongoing serial poems Mackey has been
writing for over twenty years, "Song of the Andoumboulou" and
""Mu"" (though "mu no more itself / than Andoumboulou").
In the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the Andoumboulou are
progenitor spirits, and the song of the Andoumboulou is a song
addressed to the spirits, a funeral song, a song of rebirth.
""Mu,"" too, splays with meaning: "muni" bird, Greek "muthos," a
Sun Ra tune, a continent once thought to have existed in the
Pacific. With the vibrancy of a Miro painting, Mackey's poems trace
the lost tribe of "we" through waking and dreamtime, through a
multitude of geographies, cultures, histories, and musical
traditions, as poetry here serves as the intersection of
everything, myth's music, spirit lift.
General
| Imprint: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2006 |
| First published: |
2006 |
| Authors: |
Nathaniel Mackey
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| Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
112 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8112-1652-4 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-8112-1652-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780811216524 |
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