{"product_id":"a-long-essay-on-the-long-poem-modern-and-contemporary-poetics-and-practices-paperback-softback-9780817360689","title":"A Long Essay on the Long Poem; Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817360689","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Long Essay on the Long Poem\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel Blau DuPlessis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817360689\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15 x 2.2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“I know of no other poetics of the long poem that engages such a range of questions and works. This is a must read for anyone working in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century long poem because of its numerous ways of examining its subject. DuPlessis’s intuitive and reasoned understanding of just what it means to write a long poem drawn from her own experience of writing her long poem Drafts, as well as her astute reading of the poetry and poetics of an impressive array of poets, makes this book zing.”—Jeanne Heuving, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eA Long Essay\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking and illuminating exploration of its subject, one that neither this brief review nor a single read can do justice to.\"—Rupert Loydell, \u003ci\u003eTears in the Fence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms—the long poem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For decades, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has shown readers how genres, forms, and the literal acts of writing and reception can be understood as sites of struggle. In her own words, “writing is a praxis in which the author disappears into a process, into a community, into discontinuities, and into a desire for discovery.” It is cause for celebration, then, that we have another work of warm, incisive, exploratory writing from DuPlessis in \u003ci\u003eA Long Essay on the Long Poem\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Long poems, DuPlessis notes, are elusive, particularly in the slippery forms that have emerged in the postmodern mode. She cites both Nathaniel Mackey and Anne Waldman in thinking of the poem as a “box,” both in the sense of a vessel that contains and as a machine that processes, an instrument on which language is played. This study’s central attention is on the long poem as a sociocultural Book, distinctively envisioned by a range of authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To reckon with these shifting and evolving forms, DuPlessis works in a polyvalent mode, a hybrid of critical analysis and speculative essay. She divides the long poem and the long poets into three genres: epics, quests, and a composite she terms “assemblages.” The poets she surveys include T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Louis Zukofsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Olson, Alice Notley, Nathaniel Mackey, Ron Silliman, Robert Duncan, Kamau Brathwaite, and, finally, MallarmÉ and Dante. Instead of a traditional lineage, she deliberately seeks intersecting patterns of connection between poems and projects, a nexus rather than a family tree. In doing so she navigates both some challenges of long poems and her own attempt to “essay” them. The result is a fascinating and generous work that defies categorization as anything other than essential.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653111640344,"sku":"9780817360689","price":27.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-long-essay-on-the-long-poem-modern-and-contemporary-poetics-and-practices-paperback-softback-9780817360689","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}