Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews
by Nathaniel Mackey
Publication Date: Feb 15, 2018
List Price: $45.00
Format: Paperback, 392 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781609385835
Imprint: University Of Iowa Press
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Parent Company: University Of Iowa
Description of Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews by Nathaniel Mackey
Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s “calibanistic” language practices to Federico Garc a Lorca’s flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H. D.’s desert measure and coastal way of knowing to the altered spatial disposition of Miles Davis’s trumpet sound; from Robert Duncan’s serial poetics to diasporic syncretism; from the lyric poem’s present-day predicaments to gnosticism. Offering illuminating commentary on these and other artists including Amiri Baraka, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Wilson Harris, Jack Spicer, John Coltrane, Jay Wright, and Bob Kaufman, Paracritical Hinge also sheds light on Mackey’s own work as a poet, fiction writer, and editor.
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