Whelmed

by Nicole Markotic

Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant--we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from its prefix, allowing new meanings--radically unfamiliar, yet uncannily intimate--to emerge from these prefixless word deposits. Part prose-poem sequence and part encyclopedia of unpredictably irregular terms, Whelmed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155245326X
• ISBN13: 9781552453261
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.9"