Nathaniel Mackey

[gestell]

His words are genius, particularly his prose, his phrases and cadence slide into your mind like honey. They emanate jazz, I can hear Lambert,Penguin, Aunt Nancy and the rest playing "Orphic Bend" in my mind long after the words have left glyphs, burned out like contrails across the sky of consciousness.

[ellamackey3]

That's MY DAD!!! :D

[supercrisp]

In case anyone else wants to use this in the classroom, here are the poems Mackey reads and the pages on which you can find them in Splay Anthem: "Sound & Sentience" (86-87), Song 55 (93-94), Song 56 (95-102), "Dread Lakes Aperture" (103-05), Song 58 (109-14).

[thesesignals]

@supercrisp thank you! i regularly teach mackey & can never remember which one of the youtube videos of him reading has the poems i teach on them.

[BATAMUNTU]

really very beautiful and creative mind set...view of the modern world most certainly...love and appreciate the work of nathaniel mackey....thank you very much

[neemerz08]

thats my daddy!no joke!

[BlaxisDuende]

"...Phantom limbs they were we ran on - ghost feet that they were..." I love how he can invoke Miles, Wilson Harris and Archie Shepp in one piece without mentioning their names. This cat is a genius.

[RamsesGiovanni]

nice...

[BlaxisDuende]

sorry, I meant to give you a thumbs up and hit the wrong button.

[ttbinsanity]

i got you i evened him out :)