Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews

Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackeys multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitmans interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaites calibanistic language practices to Federico García Lorcas flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H. D.s desert measure and coastal way of knowing to the altered spatial disposition of Miles Daviss trumpet sound; from Robert Duncans serial poetics to diasporic syncretism; from the lyric poems present-day predicaments to gnosticism. Offering illuminating commentary on these and other artists including Amiri Baraka, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Wilson Harris, Jack Spicer, John Coltrane, Jay Wright, and Bob Kaufman, Paracritical Hinge also sheds light on Mackeys own work as a poet, fiction writer, and editor. See more