Torques

Drafts 58-76

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Twisted, knotted, struck by events and emotions at our historical moment, these Drafts register and produce torques – exaltation and tension, torsion and force, in their symphonic and bantering surges. In this book, DuPlessis transposes Wordsworth, Mallarmé, Pound and Rilke; she writes doggerel, a lexicon, dialogues, a mini-manifesto, and lyrics from a spirit voice. This book continues the ambitious long poem project that Ron Silliman has called “one of the major poetic achievements of our time.” Drafts, begun in 1986, manifests thematic and emotional investments centering on loss, struggle, and hope, on the unsayable and “anguage” – the language of anguish. Two main formal and structural principles center this work, repetition and the fold. The works repeat themes and images throughout, a recontextualization of materials, a building of traces, and a repetitive repositioning of images and narrative that also suggests both the waywardness of experience and a pensive responsiveness to what happens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-10-01
Mått140 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt218 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSalt Modern Poets
Antal sidor156
FörlagSalt Publishing
ISBN9781844713349
UtmärkelserLong-listed for Warwick Prize for Writing 2008 (UK)

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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.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsGrid of Drafts Draft 58: In SituDraft 59: Flash BackDraft 60: RebusDraft 61: PyxDraft 62: GapDraft 63: Dialogue of self and soulDraft 64: Forward SlashDraft 65: ThatDraft 66: ScrollDraft 67: Spirit DittiesDraft 68: ThresholdDraft 69: SentencesDraft LXX: LexiconDraft 71: Headlines, with SpoilDraft 72: NanifestoDraft 73: VertigoDraft 74: WandererDraft 75: DoggerelDraft 76: Work Table With Scale ModelsNotes

In Drafts, DuPlessis combines narrative and lyric elements, crosses genres (documentary, report, ode, elegy, autobiography, midrash), creates palimpsests, uses gloss, creolisation, over-writing, multiple fonts, punning, and word-hinges, all of which contribute to a sense of the text as being at once inclusive (polyvocal, multi-cultural, and symphonic) as well as filled with gaps, hesitant, and conflicted. Blacked-out patches of text in “Draft 5: Gap,” “Draft 52: Midrash,” and “Draft 68: Threshold” remind the reader of the overlay of social censorship that regulate such tracings of the past.”