Drafts

Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft, unnumbered: Précis

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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This book brings Drafts, the long poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, to its mid-point. A polyphonic work, both monumental and provisional, Drafts asks how to represent our sense of direness and ethical crises, the awe, asonishment, skepticism and pleasure: that all this is. This installment of nineteen Drafts is dedicated to its own poetic and political communities, offering these dedications as pledges to transformation out of social rage and out of grief-inflected hope. The book also contains a witty “summary” of all fifty-seven Drafts to date. This book makes clear the ways DuPlessis’ long poem is a midrashic response to the long poems of modernism and the tolls of modernity. She is a poet of polysemy, of negativity, of critique. Of Drafts, Walter Kaladjian remarked, “DuPlessis’ avant-garde procedures are imbricated in an ethicopolitical mode of poetic testimony.” Nathaniel Mackey said that Drafts “affirm and negate the toll history takes on letter and spirit, affirming and negating and navigating a way between.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-09-01
Mått140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSalt Modern Poets
Antal sidor252
FörlagSalt Publishing
ISBN9781844710720

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected here in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.

AcknowledgmentsGrid of Drafts 1-38, Toll and Drafts 39-57: PledgeDraft 39: SplitDraft 40: One LyricDraft 41: Of ThisDraft 42: Epistle, StudiosDraft 43: GapDraft 44: StrettoDraft 45: FireDraft 46: EdgeDraft 47: Printed MatterDraft 48: Being AstonishedDraft 49: Turns, an InterpretationDraft L: Scholia and RestlessnessDraft 51: Clay SongsDraft 52: MidrashDraft 53: EclogueDraft 54: TildeDraft 55: QuiptychDraft 56: Bildungsgedicht with AppleDraft 57: Workplace: NekuiaDraft, unnumbered: PrécisNotes