A Complex Sentence

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By Marjorie Welish

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A Complex Sentence by Marjorie Welish offers an immersive exploration of modernist poetry's canon and poetics. Through intricate rhetorical techniques like diagramming and quotation, Welish invites readers to navigate the mental processes behind poetic language. Her innovative manipulation of page space blurs the line between visual art and written word, transforming the lyric poem into a tool for contemplating the writer's craft, language, and literature itself.
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Ideal for readers interested in avant-garde poetry, literary theory, and the intersection of visual art with language. Scholars and enthusiasts of modernist poetry and experimental poetic forms will find this collection particularly engaging.

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In A Complex Sentence, Marjorie Welish builds immersive intertextual environments as she questions 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 call our attention to literary acts—from finding the right desk to getting lost at logic gates—yet all the while 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 rigour, Welish turns the lyric poem into a critical instrument with which to think about the writer's calling, through the specifics of language and literature.

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Praised as an important and seminal work, A Complex Sentence is celebrated for its joyful complexity and precise word choice. Allen Fisher highlights Welish's visual acuity and constructivist practice, noting the book's cohesive interconnectivity across poems and visual presentations. The collection balances musical clarity with sensitive disruptions, showcasing Welish at her most powerful and nuanced.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566896085

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 June 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

Collections

Arts & Culture Marjorie Welish Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

A Complex Sentence, the sixth book of poems by Marjorie Welish to be published by Coffee House Press, received fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. For her arts and critical practice, she has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. Papers delivered on her arts practices at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania are compiled in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish. Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 is a book of her art criticism. A Work, and . . ., in which she is interviewed by Lilly Wei, is the most extensive catalogue of her art.