So What So That - Softcover

Welish, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566894565 ISBN 13: 9781566894562

Verlag: Coffee House Press, 2016

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"PARAPHRASE, HERESY OF. This entry in an encyclopedia on poetics has something to say about poetic language that by definition keeps distant from scientific iteration. But So What So That proposes something else, and throughout are statements and citations as well as swerves from these, grafts and translations as well as swerves from these. Speech turns into writing, and writing turns into sprechstimme. Here are new paths for the mind; for the voice, possibilities that no one has heard paraphrase. So What So That extemporizes on the question: What is the same?"--Aaron Kunin "Marjorie Welish's So What So That is at once meditative and noisy, a charting of the obstinate continuum of consciousness and a scattergraph of words and phrases assembled--as in the music of one of her poem's subjects, Iannis Xenakis--stochastically, open to chance and never to be predicted. These poems are also synesthetic, throwing 'flatted fifths into the kiln,' which could suggest a 'fragmented' subject in postmodern parlance but, in fact, expresses the unique collusion of color, tone, and text--the distinctive klangfarbe--of Welish's sensibility. Finally, these poems are engaged--the ethics of art, politics, and language comprise the binding undertone--and though 'difficult' at first, So What So That is a tour of a mind enviably open to everything but 'negatively' (in Keats's sense) skirting conclusion."--Brian Kim Stefans

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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

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• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1566894565
• ISBN 13: 9781566894562
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144