{"product_id":"drafts","title":"Drafts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book brings \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e, the long poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, to its mid-point. A polyphonic work, both monumental and provisional, Drafts asks how to represent our sense of direness and ethical crises, the awe, asonishment, skepticism and pleasure: that all this is. This installment of nineteen \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e is dedicated to its own poetic and political communities, offering these dedications as pledges to transformation out of social rage and out of grief-inflected hope. The book also contains a witty “summary” of all fifty-seven \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e to date. This book makes clear the ways DuPlessis’ long poem is a midrashic response to the long poems of modernism and the tolls of modernity. She is a poet of polysemy, of negativity, of critique. Of \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e, Walter Kaladjian remarked, “DuPlessis’ avant-garde procedures are imbricated in an ethicopolitical mode of poetic testimony.” Nathaniel Mackey said that \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e “affirm and negate the toll history takes on letter and spirit, affirming and negating and navigating a way between.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223570764120,"sku":"9781844710720","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781844710720_5a4d5d87-cd12-49a8-b140-e8a9058cebf0.jpg?v=1764914444","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/drafts","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}