{"product_id":"whatsaid-serif-by","title":"Mackey, Nathaniel: Whatsaid Serif","description":"\u003cp\u003eCity Lights Books (paperback, 2001)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cem\u003eWhatsaid Serif\u003c\/em\u003e, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of \u003cem\u003eSong of the Andoumboulou\u003c\/em\u003e, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in \u003cem\u003eEroding Witness \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSchool of Udhra\u003c\/em\u003e, his two previous books. Named after a Dogon funeral song whose raspy tonalities prelude rebirth, \u003cem\u003eSong of the Andoumboulou\u003c\/em\u003e has from its inception tracked interweavings of lore and livid apprehension, advancing this weave as its own sort of rasp. These twenty new installments evoke the what-sayer of Kakapalo storying practice as a figure for the rough texture of such interweaving. Mackey has suggested that the Andoumboulou, a failed, earlier form of human being in Dogon cosmology, are \"a rough draft of human being,\" that \"the Andoumboulou are in fact us; we're the rough draft.\" The song is of possibility, yet to be fulfilled, aspiration's putative angel itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31758215413783,"sku":"9780872863415","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/nm.gif?v=1600812185","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/whatsaid-serif-by","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}