Amazon.com description: Product Description: Poetry. ELSE, IN SUBSTANCE advances specific tactics for constructing poems of sequences, or parts of sentences. The title poem proposes that a word is put through trials of similarity and difference: The necessary dress/ The contingent dress.// For the thesis that/ realizing the ideal// cannot be/ in objects such as these// lexicons/ not self-identical,// as of forgetful Greece,/ say again,// say again,/ in memoriam// happens always, frequently/ in prophetic dress... Another poem, titled Possible Fires, compiles three procedures for rendering sentences from words, or rather, allows the relay, a variant of the relay, and an algorithm to do their work. These and the rest of the poems that constitute this book affirm Marjorie Welish as one of America's most challenging and rewarding authors. Welish is the author of AND THE WINDOWS FLEW OPEN (Burning Deck) and TWO POEMS (Z Press), both of which are available from SPD. Saddlestapled chapbook.