Mackey, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Mackey is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Nod House (New Directions, 2011), an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, of which four volumes have been published, most recently Bass Cathedral (New Directions, 2008), and two books of criticism, most recently Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (Wisconsin, 2005). He edits the journal HAMBONE and coedited, with Art Lange, the anthology Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (Coffee House, 1993). He lives in Durham, North Carolina, and teaches at Duke University.