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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863828 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100868580 02 0872863824 03 9780872863828 15 9780872863828 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 192 00 192 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy African American Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <P>The letters in <I>Atet A.D.</I> span a seven-month period from shortly after Thelonious Monk's death to the former Mystic Horn Society's recording an album on John Coltrane's birthday. Written by composer and multi-instrumentalist N., this imaginative work transcibes black music into a kind of postmodern narrative: part philosophy, part confessional folklore.</P><P><B>Nathaniel Mackey</B>, recipient of a 1993 Whiting Writer's Award, is the author of <I>Eroding Witness</I>, <I>School of Udhra</I>, <I>Whatsaid Serif</I>, <I>Bedouin Hornbook</I>, and <I>Djot Baghosus's Run</I>, as well as <I>Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and</I> <I>Experimental Writing</I>. He teaches literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.</P> 02 The letters in Atet A.D. span a seven-month period from shortly after Thelonious Monk's death to the former Mystic Horn Society's recording an album on John Coltrane's birthday. Written by composer and multi-instrumentalist N., this imaginative work... 08 "Mackey, with his nuanced knowledge of jazz, convinces the reader that music operates like a language, with all the power to convey, say, a specific feminist critique of male-centered jazz culture, or to acquire levels of symbolism that would make Dante wonder if he should have taken up sax." from the starred review in <i>Publishers Weekly </i> 08 "<i>Atet A.D</i>. is a fascinating work of poetic/musical fiction-storytelling that plays with, and is inspired by, language and the mystical concepts and connections that arise unbidden from the manipulation of metaphor and meaning, while simultaneously fueled by the sounds and energy of American jazz which Mackey views as a source of spiritual and sexual discipline and discovery" Art Lange, <i>Pulse</i> 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100868580/images/87286100868580L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100868580/images/87286100868580S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100868580 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20010801 01 8 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20010801 01 02 13.95 USD