A Complex Sentence
Marjorie Welish
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- This is Marjorie’s sixth book with Coffee House. We’re honored that a poet of her stature and influence is loyal to our press. She is truly an icon of experimental and modernist poetry.
- This collection engages deeply with the challenging legacy of Ezra Pound, particularly his Cantos. Marjorie’s incisive voice and critical mind will be valued by many other writers who are involved in that conversation.
- Marjorie has a devoted, established readership of poets, writers, artists, and thinkers who are eager to read and engage with her work.
- Marjorie is an admired visual artist whose work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Getty Center and the New York Public Library. Her poetry has a deep connection to her visual art.
- Marjorie is a good advocate for her own work. She’s well connected in academia, literary criticism and art criticism circles, and the visual-art world. She will be strategic about getting her book into people’s hands and about creating spaces for engagement around the book. She’s known as a formidable but generous reviewer and loves to invite similar conversations around her own work. We’ll be pursuing possible events that involve conversation between artists and poets.
Contributor Bio
A Complex Sentence, the sixth book of poems by Marjorie Welish to be published by Coffee House Press, received fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. For her arts and critical practice, she has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. Papers delivered on her arts practices at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania are compiled in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish. Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 is a book of her art criticism. A Work, and . . ., in which she is interviewed by Lilly Wei, is the most extensive catalogue of her art.
