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Product Description: Poetry. "For those of us who fell in love with the putative end of DuPlessis's lifework, Drafts—'Volta! Volta!'—it's a serious pleasure to discover that it has indeed taken a turn, the serial poem plumbing its manifold interstices for a way to 'unbegin,' and in so doing discovering new 'ways of exceeding itself / and of losing itself / in strings of letters...read more

Manifests thematic and emotional investments centering on loss, struggle, and hope, on the unsayable and language the language of anguish. This book repeats themes and images throughout, a recontextualization of materials, a building of traces, and a repetitive repositioning of images.

Gathers writings by Kate Millett, Vivian Rainer, Barbara Smith, Alix Katess Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Smith, and Ellen Willis

A noted feminist critic and innovative poet, Rachel DuPlessis has gathered her speculative essays in a unique collection that is as much a work of art as a book of feminist criticism. Fusing meditation and passion, The Pink Guitar articulates an extensive critique of modernist representations of the female whose prose reverberates with the intensive rhythms of art.

Feminist issues in avant garde poetry. In her now-classic The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding a language that would question deeply held assumptions about gender. In the 12 essays and introduction that constitute Blue Studios, DuPlessis continues that task, examining the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they have fashioned to challenge commonplace assumptions about gender and cultural authority. The essays in “Attitudes and Practices” deal with two questions: what a feminist reading of cultural texts involves, and the nature of the essay itself as a mode of knowing: how poetry can be discursive and how the essay can be poetic. The goal of “Marble Paper,” with its studies of William Wordsworth, Ezra Pound, and Charles Olson is to suggest terms for a “feminist history of poetry.” “Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world,” Theodore Adorno wrote, and in the section "Urrealism" DuPlessis examines the work of poets from several schools (the Objectivists, the New York School, the surrealists) whose work embodies that displacement, among them George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, H.D., and Barbara Guest. These writers’ radical deployment of line, sound, and structure, DuPlessis argues, demonstrate poetry’s power not as a purely literary, artistic, or aesthetic force but as a rhetorical form intricately tied to issues of power and ethics. And in "Migrated Into,” the author probes the ways these issues have informed her, as a poet and a critic; how the political has “migrated into” and suffused her own work; and how the practice of poetry can be an arousal to a deeper understanding of what we stand for. 

Product Description: Poetry. A newly available part of Rachel Blau DuPlessis's well-known on-going series. This section comprises "a different order of folding-on-itself than readers have encountered thus far, one subjectively tensed between notions of summary and draft"--Louis Cabri "In a world where the lyric seems impossible, these pieces begin to not disbelieve in what Rachel Blau DuPlessis calls the "fabrics of pleasure" - the dots and dash, the "thisness and thatness" - that unnumbers the manifold and dictionaries a country...read more

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Product Description: "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status...read more

Gathers writings by Kate Millett, Vivian Rainer, Barbara Smith, Alix Katess Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Smith, and Ellen Willis

Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908–1984), along with his contemporaries Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, and Carl Rakoski, provide an important bridge between the vanguard modernist American poets and the later works of poets such as Robert Creeley. In work often compounded by the populist urbanity of city lives, the Objectivists explored the social statements poetry can make. Because Oppen wrote only one essay and one essay-review, his correspondence, in effect, constitutes his essays. Oppen is emerging as one of the major poets of the postwar era; he was the recipient of an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the PEN/West Rediscovery Award, and a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His collection Of Being Numerous received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.These working papers include a rich correspondence, letters which provide access to the sustained, perceptive body of critical and aesthetic thinking of Oppen’s poetic career. Provocative and witty comments on poetry and poetics, especially interesting for the development of an Objectivist aesthetics, and shrewd, deeply felt assessments about the politics of the twentieth century and its moral dilemmas are some of the issues attended to. This edition offers primary documentation about an influential poetics, a little-known movement, and its active figures. Given the aggressive studies of the politics of canon-formation, the interest in describing a historical context for individual literary achievement, and current debates about mainstream poetry, the rethinking of the Objectivist movement, and the collection of documents contributing to its poetics, is an important achievement in literary scholarship.

Product Description: This volume fills a real gap in H. D. scholarship. It is situated at the crossroads of contemporary hermeneutics and feminist criticism.

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