In the Futurity Lounge: Asylum for Indeterminacy

By Marjorie Welish

Welish fuses poetry with visual art and architecture.

In her new collection, Marjorie Welish presents two books in one. "In the Futurity Lounge" may be read as that de-centered laboratory of the modern futurity lounge where experimental works are in a constant state of being constructed. Her poems are written across, through, and at the expense of urban sites, themselves part architecture, part language, including Roebling's Aqueduct, Wright's Fallingwater, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line, and Rem Koolhaas's student center at Illinois Tech. "Asylum for Indeterminacy" is an extended zone of research devoted to translation constructed freely from a few given words from prior translations. Baudelaire's "Correspondences" is the provocation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156689302X
• ISBN13: 9781566893022
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"