Atet A.D.
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (995 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872863824 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Like its predecessors, Bedouin Hornbook and Djbot Baghostus's Run, Atet A.D. (Nov.)Forecast: Mackey is an editor of the Library of America's anthology of 20th-century poetry, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a well-known figure in experimental writing circles. is composed mostly of letters by composer/musician "N." addressed to a mysterious correspondent, "Angel of Dust," to whom N. From Publishers Weekly This third volume of Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate series returns to the stor
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 transcibes black music into a kind of postmodern narrative: part philosophy, part confessional folklore.Nathaniel Mackey, recipient of a 1993 Whiting Writer's Award, is the author of Eroding Witness, School of Udhra, Whatsaid Serif, Bedouin Hornbook, and Djot Baghosus's Run, as well as Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, andExperimental Writing. He teaches literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Language as Jazz and Jazz as LanguageWhat a trip! It is really criminal that there is only one other reader's review of Nathaniel Mackey's brilliant novel. I use the term "novel" for convenience only, because it is so much more than that. Atet AD chronicles the creative journey of a band of musicians and how the music is intertwined with . "Esoteric" according to Steiner. I was pleased to hear upon completing this book that Nathaniel Mackey has more or less given himself over to writing poetry which I think is a smart move because his srange writing style (which places emphasis on sound) is far more suitable for poetry than prose. This novel, is the third i
He teaches at Univ. . He is the editor of the literary magazine Hambone and the author of a book of critical essays. of CA, Santa Cruz. NM, poet and critic, is the author of three books of poetry, Eroding Witness(National Poetry Series) 0252012305, School of Udhra (City Lights) 187286278X, and Wh