Product Description: "A mastery of abstraction in language, deploying an eclectic and playful vocabulary" --Newsweek.

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...read more

Product Description: “Public inscriptions are all around us. Their mystery and the lack thereof are the off-screen subject of Marjorie Welish’s gritty, beguiling Isle of the Signatories, to be pondered long after lesser inscriptions have given up their secrets...read more

Product Description: Peter Downsbrough's work reveals a particular interest in language and the structure of space, in the way things are positioned and allocated. In his photographs, sculptures, maquettes, wall pieces, drawings, films and interventions, he underlines the importance of context, evokes relations, and leaves it to the viewer to choose their position...read more

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Product Description: 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." —BookforumWelish 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...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "THE WINDOWS FLEW OPEN is a collection long anticipated and now beautifully realized. It explores the inner landscapes of psyche and dream, but also the surface tensions and contradictory currents of the world before us. If, adrift on this flow or flaw, we are actually to go somewhere, as I think we must, then here are the words of the speaking boat, whose sail is a tongue"-Michael Palmer...read more

Product Description: Bridging the gap between Language School poetics and New American Poetry, Word Group blends collage with dizzying grammar and a pyrotechnic display of surreal syntax. These new poems create music in verbal tapestries of abstract ideas and precise observations...read more