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Index, Chromaticism In

Marjorie Welish


1

Yseult, Yseut, Ysolt

perilously close to

distinctiveness, individualistically

experienced stress of hairsplitting

doctrine to word.


Except excerpt


Distinctions branching

yet not


excavate, excavation, excavator, exceed, exceeding, exceedingly, excel,

excellence, excellency, excellent,

excelsior: fine curled wood shavings, esp. for packing fragile items


Companion to The Cantos, an odyssey alphabetical

Yseult, Yseut, Ysolt

Perilously close to everything:

Cavalcanti, Guido

Cave-paintings

From The Pound Era


Entries as mind, another’s mind

alphabetically so distant and indicating

detachable from a wall in the mind of reading

consequentially. Distinction: good to go.



2

Odysseus

Odyssey


in medias res


Ideogram

Ideogrammic


In medias res

In residence
 

are the many               

Gradations / There are distinctions in clarity              

                  (Brooke-Rose, quoting Pound)

 
gradients

for calligraphic


going forth

groping towards


the modern distinction

between statement


and utterance

rather at sea:

                            At sea, “the sage delighteth in water”


3

gradation

grade

gradient

gradual

graduate


grating: a partition, covering or frame of parallel bars or crossbars : GRATE


arguably


not a delusion

but distinct


defiance elongated at crosswalk, the latter

thought detour, around the dig.


An adage

may have emerged from apparently irreconcilable dogmas, she said,


ruminating. Which is the imponderable

signage


aging, incrementally

the  bespoke commentaries


and technologies shading to a field. The book which came after.


Grating or gradient: the chorus did say

                                          did not say

But property did speak

              did not speak as it burst

                                          did not burst



                                                                    –In loving memory of Tyrone Williams




Lead image:  Marjorie Welish, #7, from “Indecidability of the Sign: Yellow/Black: Meander Collab,” 2022.


Poet, critic, and visual artist Marjorie Welish is the author of several books including A Complex Sentence (Coffee House Press, 2021) and So What So That (Coffee House Press, 2016). As a visual artist, she has exhibited most recently in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge. The February 2024 issue of Artforum published a ten-page portfolio of her art represented by Emanuel von Baeyer (London). A conference on her arts practices at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 became a book of essays: Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Foundation, 2003).



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