So What So That
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Dec 06, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781566894562
Description: "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"--