Draft 108: Ballad and Gloss

Little Red Leaves Textile Series #17

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the author of the long poem Drafts, begun in 1986, and collected recently in two books from Salt Publishing— The Collage Poems of Drafts (2011), Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (2010). The newest book, Surge: Drafts 96-114, will be published by Salt in 2013, bringing this 26-year long poem to a temporary fold. Other volumes include Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Her recent book Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2012) is part of a trilogy of works about gender and poetics that includes The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice and Blue Studios: Poetry and its Cultural Work, both from University of Alabama Press. She has published three other critical books on modern poetry, fiction and gender, eight other books of poetry, and three co-edited anthologies as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen. This is her second LRL chapbook.

26 pages, Chapbook

First published November 1, 2012