Nathaniel Mackey

Biographic Data

ID290927
NAMENathaniel Mackey
GIVEN NAMESNathaniel
FAMILY NAMEMackey
SIGNATUREMACKEY N
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR42
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Song of the Andoumboulou

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEboundary 22022

    Song of the Andoumboulou: 300—for n. o. brown: “the h.d. extension”— Once over the summit we saw clear to thebay, white sunlight bounced off the water. The shells of a thousand ships lay rotting un- derneath. The birds were in the backseat questioning and answering themselves, “Polis?Pubis? Pubis.” It had been that way the whole way, all the others following the parrots’ lead, “Po-lis? Pubis? Pubis.”. . . Andreannette and I rode in front with the…

  • Song of the Andoumboulou

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEThe Black Scholar2017

    Again we awoke remembering the dead,the dead we’d someday be. My half-deadleg lay lost in sleep, I got up ahead of it,Sophia’s legs and arms wrapped around me Idreamt, reminiscent amenity, haptic b

  • Song of the Andoumboulou

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEAfrican American Review2017

    472 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 472-481© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Mackey (poem)_Mackey 2/13/2018 4:14 PM Page 472 NATHANIEL MACKEY 473 Mackey (poem)_Mackey 2/13/2018 4:14 PM Page 473 474 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Mackey (poem)_Mackey 2/13/2018 4:14 PM Page 474 NATHANIEL MACKEY 475 Mackey (poem)_Mackey 2/13/2018 4:14 PM Page 475 476 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Mackey (poem)_Mackey 2/13/2018 4:14 PM P…

  • Angel at the Gate

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2017

    Angel at the Gate* Nathaniel Mackey (bio) —”mu” one hundred seventy-first part— “The metaphysical wishes of the body,” I’d read in Wilson’s book.A passerby with a beehive hairdo con- firmed it. Sister C and I steppedoff the bus. Was it body’s wish to rise above or to add to itself I won- dered out loud, a wish for more body or a wish to be more than body, a wish to be rid of itself. Thelady with the beehive hairdo wore a par- rot-feather boa, twi…

  • Performances, Acknowledgments, and Dinner

    Dagmawi Woubshet, Charles Henry Rowell et al.ARTICLECallaloo2017

  • Song of the Andoumboulou

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2016

    Song of the Andoumboulou: 154 Nathaniel Mackey (bio) “What flashes past will be known as Late Arcade,” Sister C explained, she the oracular traveler new to our group. Steal-Away Ridge kept our feet in place as we looked out at the hills below. We were back at polis’s roots it seemed. . . The one sea lapped eventually west as we wound our way down, a spiderlike left hand descending the strings were it a bass we rode. When we got there Pescadero sa…

  • FromFrom A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Volume Five

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEWomen & Performance a journal of…2014

    From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate is an ongoing series of letters written by composer/multi-instrumentalist N., founding member of a band known as the Molimo m'Atet. Volumes one through four are Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, Atet A.D. and Bass Cathedral. Volume five is not yet titled

  • Anabatic Jukebox

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2012

    Anabatic Jukebox Nathaniel Mackey (bio) —”mu” seventy-third part— Skin, bone, meat, blood suspect, we were again on our way somewhere else. Body suspect, gone what soul was, Ohlone games dropping painted sticks lay behind us, Lone Coast receded, we moved on . . . Sentient wind we’d be one with again, lost what soul once was. Lone Coast, honed edge we hurt our feet on, again we were beginning to be gone . . . As though there’d long since been only…

  • Song of the Andoumboulou

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEAfrican American Review2009

    Song of the Andoumboulou: 93, and: Door Peep Shall Not Enter Nathaniel Mackey (bio) Song of the Andoumboulou: 93 Rollaway horns were at his backagain. An invisible creek intersected the road he strode along, audible under a blanket of trees... Horns at his back notwithstanding, he heard it, heard what otherwise wasn'tthere. The muses' bare feet at creek's edge misapprehended, suspect awareness awareness even so, warning woven into it it seemed, m…

  • Sound and Severance

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2008

    Sound and Severance Nathaniel Mackey (bio) —"mu" fifty-ninth part— Suddenly two, they sat side by side. He and he looked out the nod house door... They wanted to go back, wanted not to know what they knew, looked out at the receding world, eyes whiting over, in dreams repeatedly bid goodbye... Choric escort... Chronic dispatch... Wondered what but andoumboulouousness awaited them. They were waiting to be born it seemed... It wasn't one was it, on…

  • From Bass Cathedral

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2006

    From Bass Cathedral Nathaniel Mackey (bio) Bass Cathedral is volume four of From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, an ongoing series of letters written by composer/multi-instrumentalist N., founding member of a band known as the Molimo m'Atet. Volumes one through three are Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, and Atet A.D. This piece originally appeared in mark(s), an online quarterly (www.markszine.com). It is published here b…

  • From Atet A.D. "Astnote"

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2001

    No doubt by now you've heard the news of Monk's death. What can one say? No doubt there'll now be outpourings of appreciation, much of it from hitherto silent sources, long overdue. It can never amount to more than too little too late. I'm reminded of how I learned of Duke's death in 1974. I was living up north at the time, in Oakland, and was in the habit of listening to the Berkeley Pacifica station, KPFA. Every weekday morning they had a progr…

  • Song of the Andoumboulou

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2001

    Nathaniel Mackey is the author of Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, Whatsaid Serif, School of Udhra, Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, and, most recently, Atet A.D., which is volume three of From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and Four for Glenn, a chapbook of poems. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Statement for Breaking Ice

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2000

    I write fiction to register a world. The simultaneous availability and fugitivity of the world fiction wants to present necessarily alter our understanding of both. I think of fiction in an open, genre-blending sense. Poetry, as many have pointed out, at its root has to do with making. Fiction I likewise take to mean something made; whether made of words or not matters but isn't all that matters. To allow for the mindmade character of much of wha…

  • Whatsaid Serif

    Mark Scroggins, Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEAfrican American Review2000

  • Destination Out

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2000

  • Editing Hambone

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2000

    The first issue of Hambone was published in the spring of 1974. It was then dormant for several years before being revived, the second issue appearing in the fall of 1982. Since then it has appeared at a rate just a bit slower than an issue per year, with issue number 14 forthcoming this fall. My comments will focus on the period commencing with the revival of the magazine in 1982, as it became a significantly different journal upon resuming publ…

  • An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey

    Charles H Rowell, Paul Naylor et al.ARTICLECallaloo2000

    Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000

  • Three Poems

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2000

  • From From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Volume Four

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo2000

    From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate is an ongoing series of letters written by composer/multi-instrumentalist N., founding member of a band formerly known as the Mystic Horn Society. Volumes one through three are Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run and Atet A.D., respectively. Volume four is not yet titled

  • Moment's Notice

    Willis Salomon, Art Lange et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1998

    Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose. Edited by Art Lange and Nathaniel Mackey. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993. ii + 365 pages. $17.50. Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose. Edited by Art Lange and Nathaniel Mackey. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993. ii + 365 pages. $17.50 paper. Willis Salomon Willis Salomon Trinity University, San Antonio, TX Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Vo…

  • Atet A.D

    Nathaniel MackeyARTICLECallaloo1996

    Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 1996

  • Discrepant Engagement

    Heather Hathaway, Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEAfrican American Review1996

    This highly regarded and frequently referenced work of literary criticism is essential to any study of avant garde poetics.Nathaniel Mackey addresses the poetry and prose of a number of authors not commonly grouped together: black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Although they are seemingly disparate, these writers are united by their experimentation with style and form. Mackey, an important…

  • School of Udhra

    Mark Scroggins, Nathaniel MackeyARTICLEAfrican American Review1996

  • Other

    Open AccessNathaniel MackeyCHAPTERJazz among the Discourses1995