So What So That

Viac o knihe

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." —<i>Bookforum</i> 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. <b>From "Vamp ('avant pied')":</b> <i>In laughter you acquit the betwixt divided</i> <i>by half and half helped into the indecent parentheses brooding on </i> <i>reasoning, resonance--too much reverb lay in the epilogue </i>