Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis

edited by Andrew R.Mossin

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2024.

A collection of essays. Contributors: Amber Manning, Peter Middleton, Megan Jewell, Jeanne Heuving, Maria Damon, Eric Keenaghan, Suzanne Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, Susan Rosenbaum, Arial Resnikoff, Joseph Donahue, Adeena Karasick, Jeffrey Robinson 

jacket2.org/feature/drafting-beyond-ending

A feature with 16 contributions (posted December 14, 2011), including 

Daniel Bouchard, “A little yod and a rocking enormity”

Thomas Devaney, “Inverting the Middle”

Alan Golding, “Drafts and Fragments”

Paul Jaussen, “Envoy: Postings on the Digital Life Poem”

Eric Keenaghan, “Openings: Some notes on the political in Drafts”

C.J. Martin, “On ‘Pitch’ with special reference to ‘Hard Copy’” and “How to mourn-touch”

Bob Perelman, “’Drafts’ and the epic moment”

Patrick Pritchett (ed.), “All serifs are seraphim” and “Debris Field” (a midrash on RBD).

Libbie Rifkin, “The force of an intervention” 

Naomi Shulman, “At the critical/poetic boundary”

Ron Silliman, “Un-scene, ur-new”

Harriet Tarlo, “The page is slowly turning black”

Catherine Taylor, “Take your time: The ethics of the event in Drafts”

Chris Tysh,  “Ghost Tracks”goes here

Hélène Aji. ”’Life’ ‘Drafts’: Towards Two Non-Dogmatic Poetic Archives.” Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, Paris: Association Française d’études américaines, 2016: 78-92.  

Matthew Carbery. Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem. New York: Palgrave Macmilan, 2019. Chapter 7: “The Book Withdraws into Itself: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Drafts.”

Maria Damon. [Review of Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft Unnumbered: Précis]. HOW2, posted May-June 2006.

http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/current/alerts/damon.html

Marcella Durand. “Infinitely Interpretable: Review of Rachel Blau DuPlessis Selected Poems 1980-2020.”  Restless Messengers: Poetry in Review https://www.poetryinreview.com/

Bradley J. Fest. “’Is an Archive Enough?’: Megatextua Debris in the Work of Rachel Blsu DuPlessis.”Genre, 54, 1 (April 2021): 139-165.

Norman Finkelstein. “Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Late Work.” Restless Messengers, Poetry in Review, 2021. https://www.poetryinreview.com/

Elisabeth  A. Frost. “Splayed Texts, Bodily Words: Serial Form and Handwriting in Feminist Poetics.” The Contemporary Narrative Poem: Critical Cross-Currents. Ed. Steven Schneider. University of Iowa Press, 2012. 221-244. 

Elisabeth. A. Frost. “The Arte Povera of the Graphic Novella.” http://poeticsresearch.com/article/elisabeth-frost-on-rachel-blau-duplessis/

Alan Golding. Writing into the Future. New American Poetries from the Dial to the Digital. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. Chapter 7 “Macro, Micro, Material: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts and the Post-Objectivist Serial Poem.”  Chapter 8 “Drafts and Fragments: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s (Counter-)Poundian Project.”

Burt Hatlen.“ Renewing the Open Engagement: H.D. and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.” In H.D. and Poets After, edited by Donna Krolik Hollenberg, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000: 130-162. 

Paul Jaussen. Writing in Real Time. Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Chapter 5: “Emergent Midrash: Rachel Blau DuPlessis Glosses Modernism.

Paul Jaussen. “The Poetics of Midrash in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts.” Contemporary Literature 53, 1 (2012): 114 – 42. 

Megan Swihart Jewell.  “Between the Poet and (Self-)Critic: Scholarly Inter- ventionism in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 5, 1 (2011): 18–35. 

Walter Kalaidjian. The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past. Baltimore: Johns Hopins University Press, 2006. Chapter 2: “The Holocaust at Home” discusses DuPlessis among other poets.

David Kaufmann. “Midrashic Sensibility.RachelBlau DuPlessis and the Poetry of Textual Reverence. Tablet Magazine. July 8, 2010 http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/38722/midrashic-sensibility/

Lynn Keller. Forms of Expansion. Recent Long Poems by Women. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Chapter 6. “Grand Collage ‘Out of Bounds’: Feminist Serial poems by Beverly Daheln and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.”

Hank Lazer. “’Travelling many direction’d crossings’: The Poetry of Rachel Blau DuPlessis.” Opposing Poetries, Volume II: Readings. Northwestern University Press, 1996: 34-59.

Hank Lazer. ”Who or What Is a Jewish American Poet, with Specific Reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Jerome Rothenberg.” In Miller, Stephen Paul and Morris, Daniel. Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press; 2010.

Sally-Ann Murray. “Lyric↔L/language: Essaying the Poetics of Contemporary Women's Poetry.”scrutiny2: issues in English Studies in southern Africa; 2011; 16(2): 12-31.   In special issue: "Whirling Worlds? Women's Poetry, Feminist Imagination and Contemporary South African Publics." 

Axel Nesme, “Etant Donné(e) Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Intertextuality and Intermediality in Drafts 1-38, Toll.” Etudes anglaises 65. 2 (2012): 202-216.

Bob Perelman. Modernism The Morning After. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama press, 2017. Chapter 6 “Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts and the Epic Moment.” 

Patrick Pritchett. “Drafts 1-38, Toll by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.” Jacket 22 (May 2003).

http://www.jacketmagazine.com/22/prit-dupless.html Accessed Dec. 26, 2005.

Libbie Rifkin. “Little Words and Redemptive Criticism: Some Points on Drafts.” HOW2 (Fall 2002). Accessed 7 Jan 2007

 http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal//archive/online_archive/v1_8_2002/current/forum/rifkin.htm

Jeffrey C. Robinson. “Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: ‘Misers of Sound and Syllable.’”  Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger. Eds., Beth Lau; Greg Kucich; Daniel Johnson. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2022: 273-298. On work by John Hall. Maggie O’Sullivan, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Joshua Schuster. "Jewish Counterfactualism in Recent Poetry."  Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 27. 3 (2009): 52-71.on Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ben Friedlander.

Harriet Tarlo. “Georgic Reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Days and Works.” Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre. Eds. Sue Ednew and Tess Somervell. London: Routledge, 2023: 227-244.

Harriet Tarlo. “Review of Around the Day in 80 Worlds, Days and Works, Graphic Novella.”  The Chicago Review 63: 03/04 (Winter/Spring 2020). 

Harriet Tarlo. “’Origami Foldits’: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts 1-38, Toll.” HOW2 (Fall 2002).  accessed 7 Jan 2007

http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal//archive/online_archive/v1_8_2002/current/forum/tarlo.htm

Ann Vickery.  “From Being Drafted to a Draft of Being: Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the Reconceptualisation of the Feminist Avant-Garde.”  Avant-Post: The avant-garde under “post”-conditions. Louis Armand, ed. Prague: Litteratia Pragensia, 2006: 133-159.

Marjorie Welish. “Review of Drafts 3-14.” Sulfur 32 (Spring 1993): 335-36. 

Ros Zimmerman. “Incomplete Closures: A Reading of ‘Draft 84: Juncture’ by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.” Journal of Poetics Research 5 (2016).  Accessed October 2, 2016.      http://poeticsresearch.com/article/zimmermann-link-to-pdf/