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This triple-set book opens in July 1978 with a dream of a haunting Archie Shepp solo, and closes in September 1982 in a parallactic studio recording session on a glass-bottomed boat borne aloft by the music. The fourth volume of Mackey's novel, Bass Cathedral--also available from New Directions--was chosen by The New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2008. 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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\")—Splay Anthem 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\").    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. \"Mu,\" too, splays with meaning: muni bird, Greek muthos, 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49703762821393,"sku":"CIN0811216527G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49732885381393,"sku":"NGR9780811216524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49942996517137,"sku":"CIN0811216527A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50951948763409,"sku":"GOR007030584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51883513053457,"sku":"CIN0811216527VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811216527.jpg?v=1751428460"},{"product_id":"whatsaid-serif-book-nathaniel-mackey-9780872863415","title":"Whatsaid Serif","description":"Exquisite recipes that push the boundaries of vegan cuisine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50068015939857,"sku":"GOR013851543","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009000374545,"sku":"NIN9780872863415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423647269137,"sku":"CIN0872863417VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683229528337,"sku":"NLS9780872863415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872863417.jpg?v=1776161543"},{"product_id":"late-arcade-book-nathaniel-mackey-9780811226608","title":"Late Arcade","description":"A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novel","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50163350896913,"sku":"CIN0811226603G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811226603.jpg?v=1751076542"},{"product_id":"atet-a-d-book-nathaniel-mackey-9780872863828","title":"Atet, A.D.","description":"Spectacular third work in Mackey's ongoing epistolary fiction about modern jazz.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372171137297,"sku":"CIN0872863824G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372175429905,"sku":"CIN0872863824VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872863824.jpg?v=1750915188"},{"product_id":"bass-cathedral-book-nathaniel-mackey-9780811217200","title":"Bass Cathedral","description":"Los Angeles, October 1982: Molimo m'Atet, formerly known as the The Mystic Horn Society, is preparing to release its new album Orphic Bend. The members of the jazz ensemble Aunt Nancy, Djamilaa, Drennette, Lambert, N., and Penguin are witness to a strange occurrence: while listening to their test pressing, the moment Aunt Nancy's bass solo begins a balloon emerges from the vinyl, bearing a mysterious message: I dreamt you were gone. Through letters N. writes to a figure called Angel of Dust, the ever-mutating story unfolds, leaving no musician or listener untouched.Bass Cathedral is Mackey's fourth volume in his ongoing novel with no beginning or end, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Thought balloons morph into mute-stereoptic emanations; N. encounters a master mouthpiece-maker; Drennette leaves Penguin dateless; Lambert's kicking it around with Melanie much is abuzz but something else is happening to the ensemble. The music seems to be living them. N. suffers cowrie shell attacks and they are all stranded on an Orphic Shore. Socio-political forces are at play or has this always been the essence and accident of the music's resilience? And Hotel Didjeridoo must be resurrected, but how? Myth spins music spins thought spins sex Mackey's post-bop boxless box set is, as the Utne Reader wrote, Avant-garde literature you can love: an evolving multivolume novel of the jazz world that plays with language and ideas the way Thelonious Monk plays with flatted fifths.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50786289516817,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50786290106641,"sku":"CIN0811217205G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51767229382929,"sku":"CIN0811217205VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811217205.jpg?v=1750745717"},{"product_id":"discrepant-engagement-book-nathaniel-mackey-9780521109994","title":"Discrepant Engagement","description":"Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. 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They obey a \"bedouin\" impulse of their own--fugitive, moving on, nomadic. Ogo the fox, the Dogon avatar of singleness and unrest, runs throughout, crossing and recrossing divided ground, primal isolate, insistent within the book's cross-cultural weave.  The poems track variances of union and disunion- social, sexual, mystic, mythic- both formally and in their content. They return rhapsody to its root sense: stitching together. Threads ranging through ancient Egypt, shamanic Siberia, Rastafarian Jamaica, and elsewhere figure in, inflected by conjunctive and disjunctive cadences inspired by jazz, Gnaoua trance-chant, cante jando, and other musics.  \"'Purgatorial stealth' (as School of Udhra puts it), within a startling progression, I find, of imageries, becomes the poem's enigmatic seductive, sometimes wavering, sliding traverse of a spiritual wilderness. I have no doubt that the book is a remarkable and daring testament that needs to be read and re-read for the unpredictable measure of involved enchantment it unfolds ...A book of haunted pleasure.\" --Wilson Harris, Palace of the Peacock  \"Nathaniel Mackey has said that in language we inherit the voices of the dead. In School of Udhra he transcribes immeasurable spaces of the dispossessed who call him runaway. This writing increasingly unleashes each skittish letter into the risk of syllabic stutter 'vatic scat' stagger. How else ever re-trace or re-member the speaker of a ghost in sentences we step across. Words or segments of lines, stab, cut, rift, rend, relate, blaspheme, and bless.\" --Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson  Nathaniel Mackey, recipient of a 1993 Whiting Writers' Award, is the author of Eroding Witness (1985), Whatsaid Serif (City Lights, 1998), Atet A.D. 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