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ERODING WITNESS (National Poetry Series) by Nathaniel Mackey, 1947- is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is ERODING WITNESS (National Poetry Series) about?
"[Book title] glows with the elemental light of "secret things" from African ceremonial rituals and wisdom. A book of initiation and ancient prophecy, it reverberates with mythic and ancestral names -- Osiris, Isis, Anubis, Ghede, the Andoumboulou, the Nommo, Ogotemmêli -- spirits [author] invokes in meditations on his own life and on the lives and work of John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Don Cherry, and others."--Back cover.
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- Author
- Nathaniel Mackey, 1947-
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252012303
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.45 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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