NATHANIEL MACKEY AT PENN STATE

As with the old time people, the
   word their one rescue, words
would be our rescue we'd been
    told. Believing so braced us,
                                                   book
of the book's advantage, book of
    the word's leverage, lift . . .













Nathaniel Mackey was up from Duke to visit us April 12-15. Things started off with a public interview as part of our Comparative Literature Monday series. Jonathan Eburne marshalled the time; questions flew from Laura Vrana, Abram Foley, Susan Wheeler and me. The interview was recorded for later airing on cable television and will at some point be available on the PSU Comp Lit web site. 

The following day, Mackey met with our graduate students for a seminar, then closed out the visit with a powerful reading, followed by Q&A. This was the first reading I'd heard from the forthcoming volume, Blue Fasa, which can be ordered here.

There was a when, some called it

whoa, something known as time we

were in. Something said to be next

rolled in, rolled on and away, rolled,

                                                           might

soul be something we

saw