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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 pagenot 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 acquitthe betwixt divided""by half and half helped into the indecentparentheses brooding on ""reasoning, resonance--too much reverblay in the epilogue""