{"product_id":"9781566892124","title":"Isle of the Signatories","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Public inscriptions are all around us. Their mystery and the lack thereof are the off-screen subject of Marjorie Welish’s gritty, beguiling \u003ci\u003eIsle of the Signatories\u003c\/i\u003e , to be pondered long after lesser inscriptions have given up their secrets.”—John Ashbery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her latest collection, Marjorie Welish invents a world of public inscriptions. From graffiti to scholarly dedication and from historical placards to words etched in granite, she employs a variety of fonts to explore the dangers of rhetoric, the mysteries of coded language, the enigmas of form, the powerful gift of dedication, and the strange sense and substance of both new and dying literary conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAre all contingencies still in effect?\u003cbr\u003eOkay Okay Okay\u003cbr\u003eOf or referring to antecedent future sentences in creases:\u003cbr\u003eas, insofar as, even as, yes! Of which antecedent future increasing salvage do we write?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecipient of the Judith E. Wilson Fellowship, the Howard Foundation Fellowship, and other prestigious awards for poetry, \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Welish\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eWord Group\u003c\/i\u003e , most recently, and also \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e , which was an Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist and a \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year. She lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049584509168,"sku":"9781566892124","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566892124_p0.jpg?v=1763786776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566892124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}