Photo by Paul Schraub
This exhibit featured the poetry, novels, and critical work of African-American poet, novelist, critic, editor, and UCSC professor of literature, Nathaniel Mackey. Mackey's writing is influenced by North American, African, Caribbean, and Latin American traditions. As critic Christopher Funkhouser has written, "Mackey's books are maps of a large region. In them, he transverses grounds of literal and figurative forests, fields, and sands he knows well . . . Those familiar with Mackey's work already know its particular and special place in literature of North America today. Defiant of any simple categorization, his vision is a hybrid of living ethnopoetics and musical and spiritual influences which are deeply rooted in a beleaguered but surviving African continent." Included in the exhibit are rare letterpress broadsides of Mackey's poetry, manuscripts, and a spotlight on Mackey's small press journal, Hambone.
Four for Trane. Los Angeles: Golemics, 1978. Poetry
Septet for the End of Time. Santa Cruz: Boneset, 1983. Poetry.
Eroding Witness. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Poetry.
Bedouin Hornbook. Lexington: Callaloo Fiction Series, 1986. Prose. Volume one
of From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.
Outlantish. Tucson: Chax Press, 1982. Poetry.
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Djobot Baghostus's Run. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993. Prose. Volume two
of From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.
School of Udhra. San Franscisco: City Lights Books, 1993. Poetry.
Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20. Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 1994. Poetry.
Whatsaid Serif. (Forthcoming) San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998, Poetry.
Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25. Memphis: Spoken Engine Company, 1995. Poetry with musical accompaniment: Royal Hartigan, percussion; Hafez Modirzadeh, reeds and flutes.
Hambone, a literary magazine, 1 (Spring 1974), 2 (Fall 1982), 3 (Fall 1983),
4 (Fall 1984), 5 (Fall 1985), 6 (Fall 1986), 7 (Fall 1987), 8 (Fall 1989), 9
(Winter 1991), 10 (Spring 1992), 11 (Spring 1994), 12 (Fall 1995), and 13 (Spring
1997). Ongoing.
Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press,
1993. Co-edited with Art Lange.
Guest Editor, Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters,
18, 1 (Winter 1995). Special issue on Wilson Harris.
"Ishmael Reed and the Black Aesthetic,," CLA Journal, XXI, 3 (March 1978), 355-366.
"The Changing Same: Black Music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka," boundary 2,
VI 2 (Winter 1978), 355-386. An abridged version reprinted in Inamu Amiri Baraka
(LeRoi Jones): A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Kimberly W. Benston (Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978), 119-134, and in Contemporary Poets, ed.,
Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), 395-409.
"The Unruly Pivot: Wilson Harris' The Eye of the Scarecrow," Texas Studies in
Literature and Language, XX 4 (Winter 1978), 32-51.
"Interview with Al Young," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, V. 4 (Winter 1978), 32-51.
"Robert Creely's, The Gold Diggers: Projective Prose," boundary 2, VI, 3 and
VII, 1 (Spring and Fall 1978), 469-487.
"Love Story Black" by William Demby (book review), San Francisco Review of Books,
IV, 5 (January 1979), 12.
"New Series 1 (Folk Series): Edward Brathwaite's New World Trilogy," Caliban:
A Journal of New World Thought and Writing, III, 1 (Spring- Summer 1979) 58-88.
"To Define An Ultimate Dimness: Deconstruction in Clarence Major's Poems," Black
American Literature Forum, XIII, 2 (Summer 1979), 61-68.
"Uroboros: Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite," Robert Duncan: Scales of
the Marvelous, ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W. Reid (New York: New Directions,
1979), 181-197.
"Just Above My Head by James Baldwin" (book review), The San Francisco Bay Guardian,
XIV, 5 (December 6-14, 1979) 21.
"Some Thoughts on 'Fusion'" The Threepenny Review, 1 (Winter/Spring 1980), 23-24.
"Limbo, Dislocation, Phantom Limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Occasion,"
Criticism, XXII, 1 (Winter 1980), 57-76.
"Great White Hope: Jean Wagner Revisited," CLA Journal, XXII, 3 (March 1980),
245-265.
"The Tree of the Sun by Wilson Harris" (book review), Kunapipi, II, 1 (1980),
168-169.
"The World-Poem in Microcosm: Robert Duncan's 'The Continent,'" ELH, XLVII,
4 (Fall 1980), 595-618.
"Notes from an Expatriate: A Conversation with Pianist-Composer Mal Waldron"
(with Herman Gray), Jazz Spotlite News, II, 2 (Fall 1980/Winter 1981), 184-187.
"The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris' Ascent to Omai," World Literature
Written in English, XXII, 1 (Spring 1983), 72-87.
"On Edge," Conjunctions, 6 (Spring 1984), 296-300.
"Sun Poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite" (book review) Sulfur, IV, 2 (Fall 1984),
200-205.
"Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol," Callaloo, X, 1 (Winter 1987), 29- 54.
Reprinted in The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy, ed. Charles
Bernstein (New York: Roof Books, 1990), 87-118, and in Conversant Essays: Contemporary
Poets on Poetry, ed. James McCorkle (Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
1990), 194-218. An abridged version reprinted in O One/An Anthology, ed. Leslie
Scalapino (Oakland: O Books 1988), 158-162, and in Postmodern American Poetry:
A Norton Anthology, ed. Paul Hoover (New York: Norton, 1994), 663-668.
"Beyond Predication," Quarry West, 25 (Fall 1988), 66-67.
"From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal
of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 5 (Fall 1990), 86-99.
"An Interview with Edward Kamau Brathwaite," Hambone, 9 (Winter 1991), 42-59.
Reprinted in The Art of Kamau Brathwaite, ed. Steward Brown (Bridgend, Wales:
Seren, 1995), 13-32.
"Poseidon (Dub Version)," Wilson Harris: The Uncompromising Imagination, ed.
Hena Maes-Jelinek (Mundelstrup, Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1991), 116-126.
"From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal
of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 6 (Spring 1991), 141-166.
"From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal
of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 7 (Fall 1991), 141-166.
"Charting the Outside: An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey," conducted by Christopher
Funkhouser, Poetry Flash, 224 (November 1991), 1, 6-11, 25-26. Reprinted in
Callaloo, XVIII, 2 (Spring 1995), 321-334.
"From Gassire's Lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War Poems," Talisman: A Journal
of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 8 (Spring 1992), 189-221.
"Other: From Noun to Verb," Representations, 39 (Summer 1992), 51-70. Reprinted
in Jazz Among the Discourses, ed. Krin Gabbard (Durham: Duke University Press,
1995) 76-99.
"An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey," conducted by Edward Foster, Talisman:
A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 9 (Fall 1992), 48-61. Reprinted
in Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews, ed. Edward Foster (Hoboken, NJ:
Talisman House, 1994 (69-83.
"Wringing the Word, World Literature Today, LXVIII, 4 (Autumn 1994) 733- 740.
Reprinted in The Art of Kamau Brathwaite, ed. Stewart Brown (Bridgend, Wales:
Seren, 1995), 132-151.
"Cante Moro," Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School, ed. Anne
Waldman and Andrew Schelling (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994),
71-94.
"An Interview with Anthony Braxton" (with Herman Gray), Mixtery: A Festschrift
for Anthony Braxton, ed. Graham Lock (Devon, England: Stride Publications, 1995),
56-69.
"Blue in Green: Black Interiority," River City, 16, 2 (Summer 1996), 116-125.
"An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey," conducted by Peter O'Leary, Chicago Review,
43, 1 (Winter 1997), 30-46.
