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Marjorie Welish creates immersive intertextual environments by questioning the canon of modernist poetry and exploring rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quotation. Her poems dissolve the boundaries between visual art and the written word, turning the lyric poem into a critical instrument for thinking about the writers' calling.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 128 pages
\n Publication date: 27 May 2021
\n Publisher: Coffee House Press
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Marjorie Welish creates immersive intertextual environments as she challenges the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we discuss poetics. In her sixth collection with Coffee House, Welish continues to explore rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quotation, to draw our attention to literary acts, from finding the right desk to getting lost in logic gates, yet always following the mental circuitry of dismantling and re-assembling a poetic language. Expertly manipulating the space of the page, her poems dissolve the boundaries between visual art and the written word. With her signature precision, musicality, and structural rigor, Welish turns the lyric poem into a critical instrument with which to think about the writers' calling, through the specifics of language and literature.

Marjorie Welish is a poet who creates immersive intertextual environments by questioning the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we talk about poetics. In her sixth collection with Coffee House, Welish continues to explore rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quotation, to draw our attention to literary acts, from finding the right desk to getting lost in logic gates, yet always following the mental circuitry of dismantling and re-assembling a poetic language. Expertly manipulating the space of the page, her poems dissolve the boundaries between visual art and the written word. With her signature precision, musicality, and structural rigor, Welish turns the lyric poem into a critical instrument with which to think about the writers' calling, through the specifics of language and literature.

\n Weight: 176g\n
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781566896085\n \n