Kinetic musical spatial relationship to the page enhances the reading experience
Jazz-inspired rhythms and modernist themes offer a fresh perspective on poetry
Innovative use of text and page as a core construction for visual and kinetic engagement
Synesthetic elements create a fragmented yet cohesive poetic landscape
Engages with the ethics of art, politics, and language for thought-provoking exploration
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Poetry by Marjorie Welish
December 6, 2016 • 6 x 9 • 144 Pages • 978-1-56689-456-2
Thinking through jazz as a form of modernism, this is poetry in kinetic, musical, spatial relationship to the page.
Marjorie 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 rel