Nathaniel Mackey

Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey reads from his new book of poetry and talks about his writing to an audience at UC Santa Cruz where he is a professor of literature. Mackey recently received the 2006 National Book Award for poetry. [4/2007] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12221]

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[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

[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.

[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).

[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!

[ttbinsanity]

i got you i evened him out :)

[BlaxisDuende]

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

[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...