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Spring Exhibit Nathaniel Mackey Bibliography file:///Users/damurphy/Desktop/exhibits/Bedouin1998.htm spring exhibit Nathaniel Mackey Bibliography Books file:///Users/damurphy/Desktop/exhibits/Bedouin1998.htm Four for Trane. Los Angeles: Golemics, 1978. Poetry Septet for the End of Time. Santa Cruz: Boneset, 1983. Poetry. Eroding Witness. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Poetry. Bedouin Hornbook. Lexington: Callaloo Fiction Series, 1986. Prose. Volume one of From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Outlantish. Tucson: Chax Press, 1982. Poetry. Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Djobot Baghostus's Run. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993. Prose. Volume two of From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. School of Udhra. San Franscisco: City Lights Books, 1993. Poetry. Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20. Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 1994. Poetry. Whatsaid Serif. (Forthcoming) San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998, Poetry. Compact Disc Recording Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25. Memphis: Spoken Engine Company, 1995. Poetry with musical accompaniment: Royal Hartigan, percussion; Hafez Modirzadeh, reeds and flutes. file:///Users/damurphy/Desktop/exhibits/Bedouin1998.htm Edited Volumes Hambone, a literary magazine, 1 (Spring 1974), 2 (Fall 1982), 3 (Fall 1983), 4 (Fall 1984), 5 (Fall 1985), 6 (Fall 1986), 7 (Fall 1987), 8 (Fall 1989), 9 (Winter 1991), 10 (Spring 1992), 11 (Spring 1994), 12 (Fall 1995), and 13 (Spring 1997). Ongoing. Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993. Co-edited with Art Lange. Guest Editor, Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, 18, 1 (Winter 1995). Special issue on Wilson Harris. Articles, Essays, Reviews, Interviews "Ishmael Reed and the Black Aesthetic,," CLA Journal, XXI, 3 (March 1978), 355-366. "The Changing Same: Black Music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka," boundary 2, VI 2 (Winter 1978), 355-386. An abridged version reprinted in Inamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Kimberly W. Benston (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978), 119-134, and in Contemporary Poets, ed., Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), 395-409. "The Unruly Pivot: Wilson Harris' The Eye of the Scarecrow," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, XX 4 (Winter 1978), 32-51. "Interview with Al Young," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, V. 4 (Winter 1978), 32-51. "Robert Creely's, The Gold Diggers: Projective Prose," boundary 2, VI, 3 and VII, 1 (Spring and Fall 1978), 469-487. "Love Story Black" by William Demby (book review), San Francisco Review of Books, IV, 5 (January 1979), 12. "New Series 1 (Folk Series): Edward Brathwaite's New World Trilogy," Caliban: A Journal of New World Thought and Writing, III, 1 (Spring- Summer 1979) 58-88. "To Define An Ultimate Dimness: Deconstruction in Clarence Major's Poems," Black American Literature Forum, XIII, 2 (Summer 1979), 61-68. "Uroboros: Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite," Robert Duncan: Scales of the Marvelous, ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Ian file:///Users/damurphy/Desktop/exhibits/Bedouin1998.htm W. Reid (New York: New Directions, 1979), 181-197. "Just Above My Head by James Baldwin" (book review), The San Francisco Bay Guardian, XIV, 5 (December 6-14, 1979) 21. "Some Thoughts on 'Fusion'" The Threepenny Review, 1 (Winter/Spring 1980), 23-24. "Limbo, Dislocation, Phantom Limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Occasion," Criticism, XXII, 1 (Winter 1980), 57-76. "Great White Hope: Jean Wagner Revisited," CLA Journal, XXII, 3 (March 1980), 245-265. "The Tree of the Sun by Wilson Harris" (book review), Kunapipi, II, 1 (1980), 168-169. "The World-Poem in Microcosm: Robert Duncan's 'The Continent,'" ELH, XLVII, 4 (Fall 1980), 595-618. "Notes from an Expatriate: A Conversation with Pianist-Composer Mal Waldron" (with Herman Gray), Jazz Spotlite News, II, 2 (Fall 1980/Winter 1981), 184-187. "The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris' Ascent to Omai," World Literature Written in English, XXII, 1 (Spring 1983), 72-87. "On Edge," Conjunctions, 6 (Spring 1984), 296-300. "Sun Poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite" (book review) Sulfur, IV, 2 (Fall 1984), 200-205. "Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol," Callaloo, X, 1 (Winter 1987), 29- 54. Reprinted in The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy, ed. Charles Bernstein (New York: Roof Books, 1990), 87-118, and in Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry, ed. James McCorkle (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990), 194-218. An abridged version reprinted in O One/An Anthology, ed. Leslie Scalapino (Oakland: O Books 1988), 158-162, and in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, ed. Paul Hoover (New York: Norton, 1994), 663-668. "Beyond Predication," Quarry West, 25 (Fall 1988), 66-67. "From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 5 (Fall 1990), 86-99. "An Interview with Edward Kamau Brathwaite," Hambone, 9 (Winter 1991), 42-59. Reprinted in The Art of Kamau Brathwaite, ed. Steward Brown (Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1995), 13-32. "Poseidon (Dub Version)," Wilson Harris: The Uncompromising Imagination, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek (Mundelstrup, Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1991), 116-126. "From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 6 (Spring 1991), 141-166. "From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 7 (Fall 1991), 141-166. "Charting the Outside: An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey," conducted by Christopher Funkhouser, Poetry Flash, 224 (November 1991), 1, 6-11, 25-26. Reprinted in Callaloo, XVIII, 2 (Spring 1995), 321-334. "From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 8 (Spring 1992), 189-221. "Other: From Noun to Verb," Representations, 39 (Summer 1992), 51-70. Reprinted in Jazz Among the Discourses, ed. Krin Gabbard (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995) 76-99. file:///Users/damurphy/Desktop/exhibits/Bedouin1998.htm "An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey," conducted by Edward Foster, Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 9 (Fall 1992), 48-61. Reprinted in Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews, ed. Edward Foster (Hoboken, NJ: Talisman House, 1994 (69-83. "Wringing the Word, World Literature Today, LXVIII, 4 (Autumn 1994) 733- 740. Reprinted in The Art of Kamau Brathwaite, ed. Stewart Brown (Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1995), 132-151. "Cante Moro," Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School, ed. Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994), 71-94. "An Interview with Anthony Braxton" (with Herman Gray), Mixtery: A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton, ed. Graham Lock (Devon, England: Stride Publications, 1995), 56-69. "Blue in Green: Black Interiority," River City, 16, 2 (Summer 1996), 116-125. "An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey," conducted by Peter O'Leary, Chicago Review, 43, 1 (Winter 1997), 30-46. .
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