{"product_id":"drafts-1-38-toll-rachel-blau-duplessis-9780819564856","title":"Drafts 1 38, Toll","description":"In Drafts 1-38, Toll, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has built a work which mimics memory and its losses, and which plays with the textures of memory, including its unexpectedness, its flashes and disappearances. Her recurrent motifs and materials include home, homelessness and exile; death and the memory of the dead; political grief and passion; silence, speech, the sayable and the ineffable. Drafts 1-38, Toll functions as a long poem comprised of 38 pieces, or drafts. These poems are conceived as autonomous \"canto-like\" sections that work on two procedural principles. One is the random repetition of lines or phrases across poems, a self-questioning, processual, and reconceptualizing strategy that honors the term \"drafts.\" A second procedural principle is \"the fold.\" This is the reconsideration of a \"donor draft\" and the deployment of some aspect in the donor draft in a related draft. The periodicity of this reconsideration is the number 19; hence drafts 1-19 make up the original layer, while drafts 20-38 constitute the first fold on top of this material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Blau Duplessis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819564850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819564856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.50w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/19\/2001 pg. 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2002 pg. 14","brand":"Rachel Blau Duplessis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992500175103,"sku":"9780819564856","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bdb69fd-d83f-4d40-a304-cb9ceb23e4ff.jpg?v=1683319278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drafts-1-38-toll-rachel-blau-duplessis-9780819564856","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}