Poetry. PROLOG PAGES are various in the complexities of their bundled themes: travel, observations from everyday life, allusions to the accomplishments of poets and artists. Wellman sometimes calls to the figures who populate his poems, expressing sympathy with the emotions that he detects in their person or their work. Unexpected bursts of conversation catch his ears. His material is the rough stuff of notebooks and journals, here from travels in Mexico and Spain (although New York City, Chicago and Angola appear as reference points too). Collages of fragmentary observation ruled by temporal juxtaposition and expediency become disciplined exercises in pared down constructions.

Author Hometown: WEARE, NH USA



About the author: 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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