Word Group Author:Marjorie Welish _Welish is a painter as well as an art critic and poet, and she takes advantage of the insight this triple engagement gives her._Her poetry is rigorously engaged with the material nature of words, lines and sentences. Shapeliness and musicality are deployed with steel-springed humor. Her syntax assembles and disassembles with mathematical grace.... more »__BOMB MagazineBridging the gap between Language School poetics and New American Poetry, Word Group blends collage with dizzying grammar and a fiery display of surreal syntax. As these poems break new ground within the uncharted territories of lyric poetry, they create music in verbal tapestries of abstract ideas and precise observations.« less