Event



Rachel Blau DuPlessis: A Poetry Reading

Sep 20, 2023 at - | Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk

A black and white photograph of poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis

The work of RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS includes the notable long poem Drafts (1986- 2012), and the collage poems Graphic Novella (2015), NUMBERS (2018) and Life in Handkerchiefs (2023). Her Selected Poems, 1980-2020 was published by CHAX Press in 2022. Books from Traces, with Days include Late Work, 2020; Around the Day in 80 Worlds, 2018; and Poetic Realism, 2021. Her most recent critical book is A Long Essay on the Long Poem from the University of Alabama Press, 2023. In addition, she has written extensively on gender, poetry and poetics including The Pink Guitar (1990, 2006), Blue Studios (2006) and Purple Passages (2012), and on objectivist poetry and poetics, as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen.

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