Mackey, Nathaniel

At nearly one thousand pages, this work demands no small investment of time, attention, and, frankly, endurance, but immediate sonic amenities abound (“Inchworm, intaglio, tangency’s / regress”), and Mackey’s gift for deep aphorism (“We were / each only our lone apocalypse”) will reward even brief encounters with this ambitious text.

National Book Award winner Mackey's latest installment in the multivolume (four and counting) "jazz novel," From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, continues the epistolary poetic narrative of musician N...

A tale of improvisation and continuation whose poetics are a trip in every sense of that word.