
The Collage Poems of Drafts
Rachel Blau Duplessis(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-1-84471-758-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rachel Blau DuPlessis has, to cite Walter Benjamin, "an edgy attraction to history's material residues." This has been one motivation of Drafts as a decade-long project, and it is a central motivation for The Collage Poems of Drafts. This book consists of two sequenced mixed-media works for reading and looking that move back and forth across the porous border between language and image. Draft 94: Mail Art alludes to the international collage exchanges send by the post; Draft CX: Primer examines the suggestiveness of the alphabet as one baseline of language and poetry, one method of making signs. Both works suggest the transport of daily life. These collages are acts of making, layering, and evoking by juxtaposition. They are cryptic, gnomic, even partly narrative, but as a whole they announce her fundamental commitment to juxtaposition - via syntax and segment in the poetry, and via image and color in the collages. They produce actualized metaphor, with talismanic signage, gnomic language, color, script, string - a thread of suggestive meanings set in play. These works are part of the bricolaging, anti-monumental sensibility of the work as a whole. They glean, they unpack and layer, they deturn images, they rescue and reframe the debris.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
253 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-758-3 (9781844717583)
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected here in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.
Content
Acknowledgements
Mail Art
Draft 94: Mail Art
Introduction
Endnotes
Primer
Draft CX: Primer
Mail Art
Draft 94: Mail Art
Introduction
Endnotes
Primer
Draft CX: Primer