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  • Blue Fasa

    by Nathaniel Mackey ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Paracritical Hinge

    Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews

    by Nathaniel Mackey ...
    Series series Contemp North American Poetry
    Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s “calibanistic” language practices to Federico García Lorca’s flamenco aesthetic of duende and its ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Late Arcade

    by Nathaniel Mackey ...
    A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novelNathaniel Mackey’s Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.’s jazz sextet, Molimo m’Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • What I Say

    Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

    by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt0, Kim Hunter1, Geoffrey Jacques2, John Keene3, Nathaniel Mackey4, Dawn Lundy Martin5, Mark McMorris6, Tracie Morris7, Harryette Mullen8, Mendi Lewis Obadike9, G. E. Patterson0, Julie Patton1, Claudia Rankine2, Deborah Richards3, Evie Shockley4, giovanni singleton5, Tyrone Williams6, Ronaldo V. Wilson7, Douglas Kearney8, Pia Deas9, T. J. Anderson III0, Dr. Lauri Ramey2, Prof. Fred Moten3 ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Hatred of Poetry

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    No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my ... Read more

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    A Guide to Modern Poetry

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    A Book About How to Read Poems

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    An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims ... Read more

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    Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:What counts as literature?Is ... Read more

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    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

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    Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making ... Read more

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