Nathaniel Mackey

Blue Fasa

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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.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.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2446-8
EAN: 9780811224468
Produktnummer: 34247901
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 431 KB

Über den Autor

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.