Drafts 1–38, Toll (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819564850 ISBN 13: 9780819564856

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 2001

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Book by DuPlessis Rachel Blau

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Críticas:

"At its best . . . the poem resembles A.R. Ammons's longer improvisations, with DuPlessis opening the mind's floodgates and finding the perfect rhythm for channeling its contents."--Publishers Weekly "Rachel Blau DuPlessis does what all good poets must do: she crosses, and indeed transcends, boundaries...She has a masterful feel for form...and her ear can be astonishing. Her visual imagination is rich and her capacity for wordplay is considerable."--Robert Long, Philadelphia Inquirer

Reseña del editor:

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, processual, and reconceptualizing strategy that honors the term "drafts." A second procedural principle is "the fold." This is the reconsideration of a "donor draft" and the deployment of some aspect in the donor draft in a related draft. The periodicity of this reconsideration is the number 19; hence drafts 1-19 make up the original layer, while drafts 20-38 constitute the first fold on top of this material.

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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0819564850
• ISBN 13: 9780819564856
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296