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by Nathaniel Mackey

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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 Mira 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.

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  • Title Splay Anthem
  • Author Nathaniel Mackey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-05
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780811216524 / 0811216527
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 0.45 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 1.14 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Epic poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005035051
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.53

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  • Black Issues Book Review, 03/01/2007, Page 18
  • Library Journal, 08/15/2006, Page 91
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/03/2006, Page 40
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