Autore: DuPlessis Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they create to disrupt assumptions about gender and cultural power In her now-classic The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau Du Plessis examined …

"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"–Franz Kafka Kafka’s quip–paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic–highlights vividly some of the key issues …

A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry Literary history generally locates the …

"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. …

What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several …

What is patriarchal poetry? How can it be both attractive and tempting and yet be so hegemonic that it is invisible? How does it combine various mixes of masculinity, femininity, effeminacy, and …

A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms-the long poem For decades, Rachel Blau Du Plessis has shown readers how genres, forms, and the literal acts of writing and …