Poetry by Marjorie Welish
December 6, 2016 • 6 x 9 • 144 Pages • 978-1-56689-456-2
Thinking through jazz as a form of modernism, this is poetry in kinetic, musical, spatial relationship to the page.
Marjorie 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. Here, her spatial acuity is tuned to the rhythms of jazz, and that art form’s relationship to modernism. One of our most challenging and rewarding poets, the pleasure is to simply marvel.
About the Author
Marjorie Welish is the author of The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems, Word Group, Isle of the Signatories, and In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy, all from Coffee House Press. Her honors include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship from Brown University, the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Cambridge University, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. She is now Madelon Leventhal Rand Distinguished Lecturer in Literature at Brooklyn College.
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