So What So That

Praise for Marjorie Welish:

"[Welish] challenges 'prettiness' at an almost feverish pitch, working against a poem's anticipated flow even as she moves it along with jazzy verve." --Bookforum

Welish uses the page--not as a surface upon which to buoy language, but as a core construction of the poem, in visual and kinetic relationship with text. One of our most challenging and rewarding poets, the pleasure is to simply marvel.

From "Vamp ('avant pied')"

In laughter you acquit
the betwixt divided

by half and half helped into the indecent
parentheses brooding on

reasoning, resonance--too much reverb
lay in the epilogue

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 12/06/2016
ISBN: 9781566894562
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d