Mac Wellman
SPLIT THE STICK: A MINIATURIST-DIVAN
by Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman associates his poetry with nonsense. But his new book Split the Stick goes beyond the political nonsense of Victorianism and leaves language to float untethered. Split the Stick links poetry with the fantastic writings of Islam and the motifs of Persian miniatures.
MINIATURE
by Mac Wellman
From his miniaturist divan—a backless sofa with pillows; a counting room, tribunal or public audience room; a coffee house or smoking room—the inimitable Mac Wellman delivers his divan, a book of poems esp. one written (in Arabic or Persian) by a single author. Wellman’s cranky texts winging just over the cozies of the heads.
STRANGE ELEGIES
by Mac Wellman
"Mac Wellman's poetry is an exuberant expedition into the mysteries locked inside words. Meaning slips and slides along the white-watersound-streams he navigates, catching and jolting at robust archaisms, liberated diacritics, and endlessly surprising figurations. Here, the elegiac tradition swerves from its pensive ways and pays playful and rigorous tribute to the syllabic micro-dramas that animate our lives"
- Una Chaudhuri