Language that engenders sense rather than depicting sense is the poetic assumption of ""Casting Sequences"". By presupposing, like the Surrealists and the French Symbolists, that language is experience and not just a defective substitute for it, Marjorie Welish elevates the medium of words. In lyrics driven at times by sound associations, at other times by style and literariness, these poems move freely among matters germane to the writing and reading of poetry itself. Placing language at the centre of consciousness, Welish's lines bespeak her conviction that words are the medium by which we bring ourselves into being and then are extinguished. These poems offer the reader an array of encounters with the provocative play of language.
- ISBN13 9780820315126
- Publish Date 31 May 1993 (first published 1 January 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 October 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Georgia Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88
- Language English