Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 71)Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional perceptions and practice. Arguing that the work of these writers engages the discrepancy between presumed norms