Casting Sequences

Welish, Marjorie (Poems by)

ISBN 10: 0820315125 / ISBN 13: 9780820315126

Published by The University Of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1993

AR3 - Book has discoloration and light shelf wear otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # EC9653BB

Synopsis:

Language that engenders sense rather than depicting sense is the poetic assumption of ""Casting Sequences"". By presupposing, like the Surrealists and the French Symbolists, that language is experience and not just a defective substitute for it, Marjorie Welish elevates the medium of words. In lyrics driven at times by sound associations, at other times by style and literariness, these poems move freely among matters germane to the writing and reading of poetry itself. Placing language at the centre of consciousness, Welish's lines bespeak her conviction that words are the medium by which we bring ourselves into being and then are extinguished. These poems offer the reader an array of encounters with the provocative play of language.

About the Author: Recipient of the Judith E. Wilson Fellowship, the Howard Foundation Fellowship, and other prestigious awards for poetry, Marjorie Welish is the author of Word Group, most recently, and also The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems, which was an Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist and a Village Voice Best Book of the Year. She lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Casting Sequences
Publisher: The University Of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
Edition: First Prinitng.