Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)
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Summary
Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis&’s authorial interventions as a poet, scholar, and cultural critic steeped in the linguistic and political frames of her time. The writers included in this volume… engage root-level questions at the heart of DuPlessis&’s praxis as posed by her in a recent essay: &“What is a poem, what is a poet, what is an oeuvre, what is the &‘poetic&’?&” Inventive and noncanonical, these essays offer substantive responses to these and other questions, providing new routes of inquiry into the poetry and poetics of this preeminent figure of new writing.