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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862784 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100862690 02 087286278X 03 9780872862784 15 9780872862784 BC 1 A01 Mackey, Nathaniel Nathaniel Mackey Nathaniel Mackey, recipient of a 1993 Whiting Writers’ Award, is the author of <em>Eroding Witness </em>(1985), <em>School of Udhra </em>(1993), <em>Whatsaid Serif </em>(1998), <em>Bedouin Hornbook </em>(1986), and <em>Djbot Baghosus’s Run </em>(1993), as well as <em>Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing </em>(1993). He teaches literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. 01 eng 144 00 144 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy African American Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <P>School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however, is only one of the strands of world revery these poems have recourse to. They obey a "bedouin" impulse of their own-fugitive, moving on, nomadic. Ogo the fox, the Dogon avatar of singleness and unrest, runs throughout, crossing and recrossing divided ground, primal isolate, insistent within the book's cross-cultural weave.</P> <P>The poems track variances of union and disunion- social, sexual, mystic, mythic- both formally and in their content. They return rhapsody to its root sense: stitching together. Threads ranging through ancient Egypt, shamanic Siberia, Rastafarian Jamaica, and elsewhere figure in, inflected by conjunctive and disjunctive cadences inspired by jazz, Gnaoua trance-chant, cante jondo, and other musics.</P> 02 School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however, is only one of the strands of world revery these... 08 "'Purgatorial stealth' (as School of Udhra puts it), within a startling progression, I find of imageries, becomes the poem's enigmatic, seductive, sometimes wavering, sliding traverse of a spiritual wilderness. I have no doubt that the book is a remarkable and daring testament that needs to be read and re-read for the unpredictable measure of involved enchantment it unfolds... A book of haunted pleasure." Wilson Harris 08 "Nathaniel Mackey has said that in language we inherit the voices of the dead. In School of Udhra he transcribes immeasurable spaces of the dispossessed who call him runaway. This writing increasingly unleashes each skittish letter into the risk of syllabic stutter 'vatic scat' stagger. How else ever re-trace or re-member the speaker of a ghost in sentences we step across. Words, or segments of lines, stab, cut, rift, rend, relate, blaspheme, and bless." Susan Howe 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100862690/images/87286100862690L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100862690/images/87286100862690S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100862690 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19930801 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19930801 01 02 9.95 USD