Poetry. "I am fascinated by the persistent formal invention of the attack, the attempt to locate and thus make hold a thing, things, in mind. Don Wellman's brilliant variousness is complex of the world's. He has done his singular work with dedicated mind and heart—it is a very solid book and should make a useful splash"—Robert Creeley.

Author City: WEARE, NH USA

Donald Wellman lives in Weare, New Hampshire. His books of poetry include FIELDS (Light and Dust, 1995), PROLOG PAGES: (Ahadada Books, 2009), and A NORTH ATLANTIC WALL (Dos Madres Press, 2010). For may years, he edited O.ARS, a series of annual anthologies exploring concepts bearing on postmodern poetics. He has translated from several languages, most recently Gravestones/Lápidas from the Spanish of Anthony Gamoneda (University of New Orleans Press, 2009). His prose includes essays on American modernist poets (Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson). He has also written on the transnational poetries and the visual arts of the Caribbean and Latin America.

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