Nathaniel Mackey’s Serial Poetics
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This essay contextualizes Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of the Andoumboulouwithin the topography of postmodern American poetry. In his seminalstudy of the postmodern series, Joseph M. Conte suggests that the seriesproceeds without looking back. Mackey, on the other hand, deliberatelycultivates echoes, repetition, and recursivity in his serial work. The individualpoems in Song of the Andoumboulou maintain a complex interrelationamong themselves. The later poems draw out what was implicit,clarify what was inchoate, and qualify what was overly optimistic in theearlier poems. Formally, Mackey uses innovative techniques to createlayers within individual Songs, incorporating gaps and breaks into theirtexture. A similar pursuit of incompleteness can be observed at variouslevels of his text, including his experiments with the book as a unit, anagrammaticwordplay, and his idiosyncratic use of the apostrophe. Thecumulative effect of Mackey’s formal choices is the enlarging of seriality’scapacity for self-questioning and methodological doubt. It is thereforepossible to see his work as both an exemplification and an extensionof postmodern serial poetics.
Abstract
This essay contextualizes Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of the Andoumboulouwithin the topography of postmodern American poetry. In his seminalstudy of the postmodern series, Joseph M. Conte suggests that the seriesproceeds without looking back. Mackey, on the other hand, deliberatelycultivates echoes, repetition, and recursivity in his serial work. The individualpoems in Song of the Andoumboulou maintain a complex interrelationamong themselves. The later poems draw out what was implicit,clarify what was inchoate, and qualify what was overly optimistic in theearlier poems. Formally, Mackey uses innovative techniques to createlayers within individual Songs, incorporating gaps and breaks into theirtexture. A similar pursuit of incompleteness can be observed at variouslevels of his text, including his experiments with the book as a unit, anagrammaticwordplay, and his idiosyncratic use of the apostrophe. Thecumulative effect of Mackey’s formal choices is the enlarging of seriality’scapacity for self-questioning and methodological doubt. It is thereforepossible to see his work as both an exemplification and an extensionof postmodern serial poetics.
참고문헌 (28)
- Boulez, Pierre, "Notes on an Apprenticeship" (1968), Knopf
- Burge, S. R, "Music, Mysticism, and Experience: Sufism and Spiritual Journeys in Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook", Contemporary Literature, 54(2), pp.271~302 (2013)
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, "Coleridge’s Writings on Shakespeare" (1959), G. P. Putnam’s Sons
- Conte, Joseph M, "Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry" (1991), Cornell UP
- Donahue, Joseph, "Sprung Polity: On Nathaniel Mackey’s Recent Work", Talisman, 9, pp.62~65 (1992)
- Eco, Umberto, "The Open Work. Trans. Anna Cancogni" (1989), Harvard UP
- Edwards, Brent Hayes, "Black Serial Poetics: An Introduction to Ed Roberson", Callaloo, 33(3), pp.621~637 (2010)
- Edwards, Brent Hayes, "Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey’s Song", Callaloo, 23(2), pp.572~591 (2000)
- Finkelstein, Norman, "Nathaniel Mackey and the Unity of All Rites", Contemporary Literature, 49(1), pp.24~55 (2008)
- Foster, Edward, "An Interview with Leslie Scalapino", Talisman, 8, pp.32~41 (1992)
- Golding, Alan, "The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics", pp.84~103 (1999), U of Alabama P
- Heuving, Jeanne, "An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey", Contemporary Literature, 53(2), pp.207~236 (2012)
- Hoover, Paul, "Pair of Figures for Eshu: Doubling of Consciousness in the Work of James Marshall and Nathaniel Mackey", Callaloo, 23(2), pp.728~748 (2000)
- Jameson, Fredric, "Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1991), Duke UP
- Lacarrière, Jacques, "The Gnostics" (1989), City Lights
- Mackey, Nathaniel, "Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing" (1993), U of Alabama P
- Mackey, Nathaniel, "Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews" (2005), U of Wisconsin P
- Mackey, Nathaniel, "Splay Anthem" (2006), New Directions
- Mackey, Nathaniel, "Whatsaid Serif" (1998), City Lights
- Mossin, Andrew, "Unveiling Expectancy: Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan, and the Formation of Discrepant Subjectivity", Callaloo, 23(2), pp.538~562 (2000)
- Naylor, Paul, "‘Some Ecstatic Elsewhere’: Nathaniel Mackey’s Whatsaid Serif", Callaloo, 23(2), pp.592~605 (2000)
- O’Leary, Peter, "Deep Trouble", Deep Treble: Nathaniel Mackey’s Gnostic Rasp, 2000, pp.23(2), 516~537
- Perelman, Bob, "The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History" (1996), Princeton UP
- Roberson, "What We Rode Was A Boat He", Mixed Blood, 1, pp.56~62 (2004)
- Simpson, Megan, "Trickster Poetics: Multiculturalism and Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of the Andoumboulou", MELUS, 28(4), pp.35~54 (2003)
- Spicer, Jack, "The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer", pp.49~96 (1998), Wesleyan UP
- Whittall, Arnold, "The Cambridge Introduction to Serialism" (2008), Cambridge UP
- Zamsky, Robert L, "A Poetics of Radical Musicality: Nathaniel Mackey’s '-mu' Series", Arizona Quarterly, 62(1), pp.113~140 (2006)