Description: This book is one long poem in many sections. It is the masterwork of this avante garde poet, who has been working on this composition for a decade.
Review Quotes:
"At its best . . . the poem resembles A.R. Ammons's longer improvisations, with DuPlessis opening the mind's floodgates and finding the perfect rhythm for channeling its contents."--Publishers Weekly
"At its best . . . the poem resembles A.R. Ammons's longer improvisations, with DuPlessis opening the mind's floodgates and finding the perfect rhythm for channeling its contents."--Publishers Weekly
"Rachel Blau DuPlessis does what all good poets must do: she crosses, and indeed transcends, boundaries...She has a masterful feel for form...and her ear can be astonishing. Her visual imagination is rich and her capacity for wordplay is considerable."--Robert Long, Philadelphia Inquirer