Double Trio

New York: New Directions Books, 2021. First Edition. First Printing. Three octavo volumes (23cm); original pictorial card wrappers; publisher's decorative slipcase; xvi,[2]-337,[7]; [xiv],[2]-345,[1]; [xiv],[2]-344,[2]pp. Fine in a Fine slipcase. A massive achievement by the National Book Award-winning poet. "Double Trio is the singular serial poem that Nathaniel Mackey has been writing for over thirty-five years – a remarkable achievement in American poetry. This epic box set includes the three volumes Tej Bet, So's Notice, and Nerve Church, each book responding and corresponding to the last three movements in John Coltrane's Meditations – "Love," "Consequences," and "Serenity" – in its weaving of history, myth, eros, philosophy, and music with the black lives that travel through its lyrical universe" (from the box text). 85754.