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Nathaniel Mackey
Four for Glenn
Jun-02, poetry, 32 pages
$16

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chapbook with letterpress covers, handsewn

Excerpt from Four for Glenn:

from "Song of the Andoumboulou: 42"
in memory of Glenn Spearman

What we rode was a book. We
fell out of it, scattered.
The book fell out of my
hand while I slept. Page
upon page upon page
nodded
out on... Fell from the

hero's

hand on the page I gripped,
never to be read again
or, if ever, only were I to awake...
Walked each with an arm around
the other's waist, weathered
hell, heaven's andoumboulouous
remit... Me the hero, we the
dream come true I'd leave off

Nathaniel Mackey received a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His books of poetry include Whatsaid Serif (City Lights Books, 1998); Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20 (1994); School of Udhra (1993); Outlantish (1992); Eroding Witness (1985), which was selected for the National Poetry Series; Septet for the End of Time (1983); and Four for Trane (1978). His prose collections include Djbot Baghostus's Run (1993) and Bedouin Hornbook (1986). Mackey is also the author of Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (1993). He is the editor of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000, with Carolyn Kizer, John Hollander, Robert Hass, and Marjorie Perloff) and Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (1993, with Art Lange). He also edits the magazine Hambone. Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25, a compact disc recording of poems read with musical accompaniment, was released in 1995. Nathaniel Mackey is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

 

 

 

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