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Cultural Writing. African American Studies. New to SPD. Addressing the poetry and prose of a number of authors not commonly grouped together, Nathaniel Mackey analyzes the work of Black Mountain poets Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson, African American poets Amiri Baraka and Clarence Major, and Caribbean writers Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Wilson Harris. By insisting that their experimentation unites these writers rather than marganalize them, Mackey questions the notions that underlie conventional perceptions and practice.