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The World-Historic Melodies of Nathaniel Mackey
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Yet poetry seemed capacious enough for both approaches to history: making it up and plumbing its depths. Returning to âChant des Andoumboulouâ gave Mackey âa sense of society as a kind of poem, social ritual as a kind of poem. So, therefore, the poem as a kind of society, made up of elements like sound, and sense, and the look words have on a page, the look line breaks give to a poem.â He began moving away from poems as discrete pieces of writingâthe sealed-off odes that we are taught in school. He thought of how the musicians he loved, like Coltrane or Cecil Taylor, the avant-garde pianist, were always âpulling more and more songâ out of an old piece of music. His poetry began scouring historiesâthe ill-fated Andoumboulou, Sufi mysticism, Gnosticism. In the early seventies, he found a copy of âMu,â an album by the trumpeter Don Cherry. In Mackeyâs mind, the title, and Cherryâs primal, ecstatic music, fi
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The Combustion Cycle (Roof Books, 2021), by Will Alexander, gathers three long poems written over two decades: “Concerning the Henbane Bird,” “On Solar Physiology,” and “The Ganges.” At more than 600 pages, the book calls attention to one of the great originals of contemporary US poetry, and at the same time it’s a record of something else something that has less to do with contemporary US poetry and more to do with another model of time and tradition. It feels like a record of a shamanic engagement with nature, with geological time, and, perhaps most radically, with what the political theorist Jane Bennett has called “vibrant matter,” the movement of supposedly “non-living” materials, such as metals and rocks. Alexander seems to be both the most American of poets part of several US traditions and almost not even writing in Ameri