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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863415 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100656150 02 0872863417 03 9780872863415 15 9780872863415 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 112 00 112 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy African American Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <P>Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his two previous books. Named after a Dogon funeral song whose raspy tonalities prelude rebirth, Song of the Andoumboulou has from its inception tracked interweavings of lore and livid apprehension, advancing this weave as its own sort of rasp. These twenty new installments evoke the what-sayer of Kakapalo storying practice as a figure for the rough texture of such interweaving. Mackey has suggested that the Andoumboulou, a failed, earlier form of human being in Dogon cosmology, are "a rough draft of human being," that "the Andoumboulou are in fact us; we're the rough draft." The song is of possibility, yet to be fulfilled, aspiration's putative self.</p> 02 Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his... 08 "Mackey's raspy rebus-like cultural resurfacings are both beautiful to read and worthy of repeated efforts at comprehension." Publishers Weekly 08 "Nathaniel Mackey's poem is a brilliant renewal of and experiment with the language of our spiritual condition and a measure of what poetry gives in trust-'heart's-meat' and the rush of language to bear it" Robin Blaser 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100656150/images/87286100656150L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100656150/images/87286100656150S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100656150 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20010401 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20010401 01 02 12.95 USD