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Interstices / Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Title

Interstices / Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Author

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3554.U566 I6 2014	Off-site

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Subpress, publisher.

Description

105 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Poems are in the form of letters and corresponding ledgers.
"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.' INTERSTICES, however, also begins the work of turning back to look upon a life spent in letters, and what I love most about this brave, witty book is that it's ultimately about being--in time, in language, in relation--a condition by nature contingent, partial, and mortal. 'Not to so easy to answer what it's like to be in time,' it admits, 'counting up / the little bits of self and / understanding.' But what makes this book so miraculous and wise is that its ledgers and letters account for the thrill of the imagination and desire alive in language even while the writing mind knows how the ultimate sentence ends. 'Let us meet it where we stand,' these poems declare, and 'enter the darkness mindfully.' The great gift of this book is that it makes such high hopes seem possible."--Brian Teare care of Amazon.com.

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