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Isle of the Signatories
Reviews
Publishers Weekly:
“Always thoughtful . . . this book could be Welish’s breakthrough, offering her clearest, most discursive works, proximate in their edgy attentions not only to art-world thinkers but to Anne Carson.”
John Ashbery:
“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.”
Jean-Michel Rabaté:
“Whizzing in parallactic drift through cosmic intertextuality, the highly charged verbal atoms hurled by Marjorie Welish whirl, vibrate and freely circumnavigate the enchanted isles of poetry—until they fall on the page and turn into the dots where you and I must sign: here, here, and here. These are magnificent poems that you will be proud to countersign.”
Lytle Shaw:
“Isle of the Signatories is about the object’s coming about. But unlike traditional cosmologies, Welish’s creative focus is less on atomic units of matter than on artistic logics of mattering—or, as she calls it, ‘assertability’: the rhetorical ether out of which artistic (and literary) objects are framed, contextualized, and, in a sense, produced. The result is an inspired meta-manual whose permutations invite us into scenes of becoming–object. ”
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