List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Andrew Mossin
PART I. FEMINIST PRACTICE & THE POETICS OF CRISIS
Chapter One. Knowing Your Own Mind: Rachel Blau Duplessis and the Poetic Scandal of Inner Speech
Peter Middleton
Chapter Two. Twentieth-Century Feminist Influences on Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts
Megan Jewell
Chapter Three. Infinite History and the Mortal Body: Re-Reading the Unending Surge
Amber Manning
PART II. MATERIALITIES OF MAKING: COLLAGE, DETRITUS, AND WASTE IN DRAFTS
Chapter Four. Intersections and Interstices: A Layering Art Practice as Embodied Feminist Philosophy: Intertexual Appliqué as Collage at the Nexus of Text, Textile, and Texture
Maria Damon
Chapter Five. “daily politics, weird shit”: Waste and Future Politics in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Later Work
Eric Keenaghan
Chapter Six. Rachel Blau Du Plessis and the en dehors garde
Suzanne Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum
Chapter Seven. An Extra Horizon can be Spun: On Editing and Publishing Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Numbers
Ariel Resnikoff
PART III. ACROSS TRADITIONS: ROMANTICISM, OBJECTIVIST AND PROJECTIVIST POETICS, SECULAR JUDAISM AND THE WITNESS OF HISTORY
Chapter Eight. Between Objectivist and Projectivist Poetics: Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the “Force Moving”
Jeanne Heuving
Chapter Nine. “Immerginated Raptures”: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts 1–38, Toll
Joseph Donahue
Chapter Ten. Spark Me Up or the Light of Shattered Language: The Holy Un()hole in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ss, “Psalm 151”
Adeena Karasick
Chapter Eleven. Romanticism and Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s “Moth: Ode to Psyche”: A Herstory of the Origins of Drafts
Jeffrey Robinson
Contributors