{"product_id":"splay-anthem-paperback","title":"Splay Anthem - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Mackey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eSplay Anthem\u003c\/em\u003e, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections--\"Braid,\" \"Fray,\" and \"Nub\" (one referent Mackey notes in his stellar Introduction: \"the imperial, flailing republic of Nub the United States has become, the shrunken place the earth has become, planet Nub\")--\u003cem\u003eSplay Anthem\u003c\/em\u003e weaves together two ongoing serial poems Mackey has been writing for over twenty years, \"Song of the Andoumboulou\" and \"Mu\" (though \"Mu no more itself \/ than Andoumboulou\").\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the Andoumboulou are progenitor spirits, and the song of the Andoumboulou is a song addressed to the spirits, a funeral song, a song of rebirth. \u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eMu\u003cem\u003e,\"\u003c\/em\u003e too, splays with meaning: \u003cem\u003emuni\u003c\/em\u003e bird, Greek \u003cem\u003emuthos\u003c\/em\u003e, a Sun Ra tune, a continent once thought to have existed in the Pacific. With the vibrancy of a Mira painting, Mackey's poems trace the lost tribe of \"we\" through waking and dreamtime, through a multitude of geographies, cultures, histories, and musical traditions, as poetry here serves as the intersection of everything, myth's music, spirit lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2006)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53458128961843,"sku":"9780811216524","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/yoFPrrO0cD9780811216524.webp?v=1781280760","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/splay-anthem-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}