Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction | Jeanne Heuving
Part I | Myth, Literature, and Seriality
Chapter One | Norman Finkelstein - Mythos, Quest Romance, and Mackey’s “Wandering ‘We’”
Chapter Two | Peter O’Leary - Myth’s Ythmic Whatsay and Nathaniel Mackey
Chapter Three | Joseph Donahue - The Long Song and the Religion of Love
Chapter Four | Rachel Blau DuPlessis - “The / Whole Was Not the Half of It”: Mackey’s Long Poem and Its Poetics
Part II | Music, Performance, and Collaboration
Chapter Five | Paul Jaussen - Mackey’s Late Style
Chapter Six | Adalaide Morris - Thinking with “The Slave’s Day Off”: Speculative Practice in Mackey’s From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
Chapter Seven | Anthony Reed - A Common Wish to Make Real: Mackey’s Musicality Reconsidered
Chapter Eight | Luke Harley - Wariness Notwithstanding: Mackey’s Collaborations with Musicians
Part III | Syncretism, Synopsis, and Whatsaying
Chapter Nine | Maria Damon - Decapitism: Mackey’s Riverine Poiesis
Chapter Ten | Fred Moten - Soul Looks Back
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index