From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

School of Udhra is Nathaniel Mackey's second full-length book of poetry, and represents a fitting continuation of his provocative and exciting poetic-cultural project, an ongoing fusion of the harmonic and melodic techniques of the most advanced post-bop jazz, the most reconditely avant-garde of twentieth-century poetics (both African American and white), the cultural traces of the African diaspora in its most wide-ranging appearances, and the multifarious apparitions of humanity's encounters with the ecstatic or spiritual, from Haitian voudoun to Siberian shamanism. The book's ...