Else, in Substance

by Marjorie Welish

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/...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945926588
• ISBN13: 9780945926580
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Paradigm Press
• Length: 18 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.