{"product_id":"9780811224468","title":"Blue Fasa","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stellar new collection of poems by “the Balanchine of the architecture dance” (\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e), and winner of the National Book Award in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e Nathaniel Mackey’s sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e has described as the “mythological conception” and “descriptive daring” of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s hard bop classic “Blue Bossa,” influenced by the emergence of Brazilian bossa nova. The book opens with \u003cem\u003ethe catch of the heart and the call of romance\u003c\/em\u003e, as it follows a band of travelers, refugees from history, on their incessant migrations through time, place, and polity toward a truer sense of being and belonging.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129370624240,"sku":"9780811224468","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224468_p0.jpg?v=1763741189","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}