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Blue Fasa (New Directions Paperbook) by Nathaniel Mackey [Mackey, Nathaniel] is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Blue Fasa (New Directions Paperbook) about?
Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham's hard bop classic "Blue Bossa," influenced by the emergence of Brazilian bossa no
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nathaniel Mackey [Mackey, Nathaniel]
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811224451
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (18 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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