Kamau Brathwaite
with Nathaniel Mackey
We Press, in conjunction with Xcp: Cross-Cultural
Poetics and,
the University of Minnesota, announces the publication
of Kamau Brathwaite 's
c o n V E R S a t i o n s
WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY
Kamau Brathwaite's conVERSations WITH
NATHANIEL MACKEY is based on the transcript of his
1993 public discussion with Nathaniel
Mackey
at Poet's House in New York City.
Brathwaite
expansively elabortes on Mackey's (and
audience's) knowledgeable inquiries; his
answers
are layered with subsequent ruminations
arising
from his lifelong engagement with world
literature
and expressive cultures. A multiphasic
drift,
CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY combines
elements of biography and autobiography
with
poetic discourse on Caribbean literary
history
and negative effects of colonial domination.
Brathwaite splices dialog with poetry,
criticism, and instructive imaginary voices
in his now distinct and characteristic
"Sycorax 'video style'" format.
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Anna Reckin: "Tidalectic Lectures: Kamau Brathwaite's Prose/Poetry as Sound-Space"
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Major funding for this project was provided
by the University of Minnesota McKnight
Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
through the Xcp: Cross-
Cultural Poetics conference.
320 pp.
Available April 1999
ISBN 0-9668976-0-9
MAIL ORDERS $15
(check payable to Chris Funkhouser)
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