Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Grid of Drafts
Draft 58: In Situ
Draft 59: Flash Back
Draft 60: Rebus
Draft 61: Pyx
Draft 62: Gap
Draft 63: Dialogue of self and soul
Draft 64: Forward Slash
Draft 65: That
Draft 66: Scroll
Draft 67: Spirit Ditties
Draft 68: Threshold
Draft 69: Sentences
Draft LXX: Lexicon
Draft 71: Headlines, with Spoil
Draft 72: Nanifesto
Draft 73: Vertigo
Draft 74: Wanderer
Draft 75: Doggerel
Draft 76: Work Table With Scale Models
Notes
