Full Description
A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics, a book of passionate poetic energies and odic verve, Surge is the provocative, open-ended ending to DuPlessis's twenty-six year long poem project, Drafts. This work exemplifies a tertium quid, transcending poetic schools and critical binaries with its fusions of intellection and emotion, with its reassessments of Dante, Eliot, Duchamp, with its witty genre experimentation, with its strands of eco-poetics, feminist analysis, conceptual torques, and unstinting poetic commitment. The book contains a contemporary mirror of The Waste Land, a striking political-emotional reflection on divided cities, an investigation of gender in a work of poet's theater, a ballad on science and reality, an index, a canzone and--over all--a scintillating texture of meditation in which the analytic lyric is intensified by the refractions of gloss.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Surge: Drafts 96-114
Draft 96: Velocity
Draft 97: Rubrics
Draft 98: Canzone
Draft 99: Intransitive
Draft 100: Gap
Draft 101: Puppet Opera
Draft 102: One-on-One
Draft 103: Punctum
Draft 104: The Book
Draft 105: Pilgrimage
Draft 106: Words
Draft 107: Meant to say
Draft 108: Ballad and Gloss
Draft 109: Wall Newspaper
Draft CX: Primer, a selection
Draft 111: Arte Povera
Draft 112: Verge
Draft 113: Index
Draft 114: Exergue and Volta
Notes to Drafts 96-114