Nathaniel Mackey

Blue Fasa (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the mythological conception and descriptive daring of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham's hard bop classic Blue Bossa, influenced by the emergence of Brazilian bossa nova. The book opens with the catch of the heart and the call of romance, as it follows a band of travelers, refugees from history, on their incessant migrations through time, place, and polity toward a truer sense of being and belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811224468
• Artikelnr.: 59590419

Autorenporträt

Nathaniel Mackey was born in Miami, Florida in 1947. He is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and has received many awards for his work, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, and the Bollingen Prize from the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University, and edits the literary journal Hambone.