<DIV><P>Bridging the gap between Language School poetics and New American Poetry, <I>Word Group</I> blends collage with dizzying grammar and a pyrotechnic display of surreal syntax. These new poems create music in verbal tapestries of abstract ideas and precise observations. As C.D. Wright said of the author, &ldquo;there may be no known correspondences for Marjorie Welish&rsquo;s mind. She&rsquo;s a little bit scary.&rdquo;</P><P>Poet, painter and critic, Marjorie Welish teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and as a visiting art critic and poetry professor at Brown University. She is the author of <I>The Annotated &ldquo;Here&rdquo; and Selected Poems</I> which was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist and a <I>Village Voice</I> Best Book of the Year. She lives in New York City.</P></DIV>