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