Marjorie Welish Books

Award-winning poet, painter, and critic Marjorie Welish presents Word Group, a collection of inspirational lyric poems that fuse raw imagination with dynamic patterns of rhythm, dialogue, spacing, and descriptive imagery. A refreshing window into a unique style of using words as a canvas to impress the critical struggles of daily survival and aspirations beyond. "This Sort": In a plane, plot, or gravitational pull, negative or interrogative. / Glosses / Without pronouncing it / The zone in sun // gravitational accident / gravitational microphones // Histories of the subjugated read as serious scatter / vernaculars / smote by a microchip / "And he does so." // His effort to talk / through and through

This book raises one interesting theoretical question: does poetry have an obligation to be amusing, enjoyable, understandable, or is it OK to be boring, unintelligible, and "theoretically" correct? Like they say, I wanted to like this book. I really did. But, man, is it dull.