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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