{"product_id":"splay-anthem-9780811216524","title":"Splay Anthem","description":"Part 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathaniel Mackey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Winner","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440707014793,"sku":"9780811216524","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_013706c4-a37d-4ba2-a89f-a735108d5b02.jpg?v=1716239555","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/splay-anthem-9780811216524","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}