A stellar new collection of poems by â€œthe Balanchine of the architecture danceâ€ (The New York Times) and winner of the 2006 National Book Award in poetry. With

Nod House

A stellar new collection of poems by â€œthe Balanchine of the architecture danceâ€ (The New York Times) and winner of the 2006 National Book Award in poetry.
With Nathaniel Mackeyâ€™s fifth collection of poems, Nod House, we witness a confluence of music and meaning unprecedented in American poetry. Mackeyâ€™s art continues to push the envelope of what is possible to map and remap through words in sounds and sounds in words. Picking up with Nubâ€™s disintegration at the end of his previous collection â€• the National Book Awardâ€“winning Splay Anthem â€• we follow a traveler and a tribe of travelers ensconced in myth and history as Mackey continues to weave his precisely measured music with two ongoing serial poems, Song of the Andoumboulou and Mu. The collec- tion is divided into two sections, both titled â€œQuag,â€ and it is this double-Quag (â€œNubâ€™s new colony Quagâ€ or Qraq or Ouabâ€™da or Quaph . . .) that the tribe is exiled in, worlds within alternate worlds where names and places are ever-shifting, and dreamlessness reigns. From the pyramids to the projects, Ivory Coast to Lone Coast, Lagos to Stick City, amidst chorusing horns and star-spar lightning, Nod House (â€œNubâ€™s / new / addressâ€) unfolds as gorgeous eulogy, copla-cuts of deep song, the long elegiac march of â€œday after day of the dead.â€
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-11-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811219464

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2011-11-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811219464

Nod House

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