Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey$14.41
$16.95
In the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the Andoumboulou are progenitor spirits, and the song of the Andoumboulou is a song addressed to the spirits, a funeral song, a song of rebirth. "Mu," too, splays with meaning: muni bird, Greek muthos, a Sun Ra tune, a continent once thought to have existed in the Pacific. With the vibrancy of a Mira painting, Mackey's poems trace the lost tribe of "we" through waking and dreamtime, through a multitude of geographies, cultures, histories, and musical traditions, as poetry here serves as the intersection of everything, myth's music, spirit lift.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/17/2006
ISBN: 9780811216524
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.45d
Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/03/2006 pg. 40
Library Journal 08/15/2006 pg. 91
Library Journal 08/01/2006 pg. 91
Library Journal 04/15/2007 pg. 90
Black Issues Book Review 03/01/2007 pg. 18