In the futurity lounge : asylum for indeterminacy : poems / Marjorie Welish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welish, Marjorie, 1944-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press : Distributor, Consortium Books Sales & Distribution, 2012.

Summary:

In Her New Collection, Marjorie Welish presents two books in one. In the Futurity Lounge may be read as that de-centered laboratory of the modern futurity lounge where experimental works are in a constant state of being constructed. Her poems are written across, through, and at the expense of urban sites, themselves part architecture, part language, including Roebling's Aqueduct, Wright's Fallingwater, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line, and Rem Koolhaas's student center at Illinois Tech. Asylum for Indeterminacy is an extended zone of research devoted to translation constructed freely from a few given words from prior translations. Baudelaire's "Correspondences" is the provocation. Book jacket.

The Work of Marjorie Welish. In 200g, Granary Books published Oaths? Questions?, a collaborative artists' book by Welish and James Siena that was the subject of a special exhibition at Denison University Museum in Granville, Ohio, and part of a two-year tour of artists' books throughout the United States. Her honors include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship from Brown University, the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Cambridge University, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. She is now Madelon Leventhal Rand Distinguished Lecturer in Literature at Brooklyn College. Book jacket.

Contents:

Spacing 1

Consecutive Studios 2

In Situ 3

Figure 7

Statement (Some Assembly Required) 8

To Be Cont. 10

Spasm for Wall 13

Interior 14

Dextrous 15

Skepticism vs. Incredulity 18

Unlike His Friend 19

For Best Results, Try 20

Advert 23

This Against Which 28

In the Futurity Lounge In the Futurity Lounge 30

In the Futurity Lounge (Detail) 35

Subject Matter 36

Matter in Hand 37

Roebling Rope 38

Pastoral Transfusion 41

Later That Day 43

Album, c. 1930 44

Pavilion for Cross-traffic 45

Loose-fitting Proof 46

An Anthology Called Pegasus 48

Wanted: 50

Flags and Their Discontents 52

R, Reading 56

Signal to Noise 58

Inverleith House 64

Ex Libris 72

Asylum for Indeterminacy 81.

ISBN:

9781566893022

156689302X

OCLC:

744560332