Nathaniel Mackey
Autore di Splay Anthem
Sull'Autore
Nathaniel Mackey is the author of several books of fiction, poetry, and criticism and has received many awards for his work, including the National Book Award for Poetry for Splay Anthem. Mackey is the Reynolds Price professor of English at Duke University.
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Serie
Opere di Nathaniel Mackey
From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, Atet A.D. (Vol.… (2010) 39 copie
Opere correlate
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Collaboratore — 275 copie
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Collaboratore — 89 copie
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
ACTS 4, Vol. 1, no. 4, Summer 1985 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
New World Journal #5 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root #4 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Mackey, Nathaniel
- Data di nascita
- 1947
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Miami, Florida, USA
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA - Istruzione
- Princeton University (BA)
Stanford University (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- dichter
criticus - Organizzazioni
- Duke University
Academy of American Poets - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Whiting Writers' Award (1993)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2014)
Bollingen Prize (2015)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Opere correlate
- 16
- Utenti
- 467
- Popolarità
- #52,672
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 29
- Preferito da
- 2
Paracritical Hinge refers to the pivotal point of the combination of poetry, fiction, and art. Mackey examines several subjects including an interesting examination of phenology, the poetry of the Vietnam War, and jazz. He also discusses writers and arts in his work like Amiri Baraka and John Coltrane.
This is clearly a work for those familiar with Mackey and his work. The reading is not easy especially for one whose field of study and interest are not strongly connected to Mackey's. The writing in the body of the work is complex with plenty of names and themes that are understood to be known. I had to skip through the introduction because it was over my head. I found it a little odd that I could follow along in sections where I had an understanding of the subject matter but was lost in the introduction that was supposed to introduce the subject and ease me into it. A difficult but rewarding work that clearly is not for everyone.… (altro)