{"product_id":"the-complete-drafts-9781566897235","title":"The Complete Drafts","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom experimental poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis comes a major work over three decades in the making: a long poem addressing the intimate and dynamic nature of poetry, culture, and life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Drafts\u003c\/i\u003e comprises 114 endlessly innovative cantos engaging the poet's life and our times. Saturated with polyphonic responses to the historical and artistic sweep of the 20th and 21st centuries, all emotions are double and conflicting: wonder and bedazzlement at the world alongside grief for what we have made of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranscendent and ethically inquisitive at once, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Drafts\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent contemporary long poem of hope, critique, resistance, and melos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, scholar, critic, and collagist. Her work includes the notable long poem \u003ci\u003eDrafts\u003c\/i\u003e (1986-2012), related historical-serial books such as \u003ci\u003eDaykeeping\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), and collage poems. As a poet-critic she has written extensively on gender, modern and contemporary poetry, and both feminist and objectivist poetics, with special attention to H.D., Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker, Barbara Guest, and George Oppen.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276684689682,"sku":"9781566897235","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_142d719d-63e1-4588-9341-6b257dea6238.jpg?v=1747135375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-drafts-9781566897235","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}