Rachel Blau Duplessis

Drafts 1 38, Toll

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In Drafts 1-38, Toll, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has built a work which mimics memory and its losses, and which plays with the textures of memory, including its unexpectedness, its flashes and disappearances. Her recurrent motifs and materials include home, homelessness and exile; death and the memory of the dead; political grief and passion; silence, speech, the sayable and the ineffable. Drafts 1-38, Toll functions as a long poem comprised of 38 pieces, or drafts. These poems are conceived as autonomous canto-like sections that work on two procedural principles. One is the random repetition of lines or phrases across poems, a self-questioning, p… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8195-6485-6
EAN: 9780819564856
Produktnummer: 1155582
Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 398 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 398

Über den Autor

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS is Professor of English at Temple University and author of six books of poetry and four books of criticism including Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908 - 1934 (2001) and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (1990).