Rachel Blau Duplessis

Poet-critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Ph.D., Columbia University) is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and as a poet and essayist. Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work , a book of essays, was published by University of Alabama Press in 2006; in the same year, Alabama reprinted DuPlessis's classic work The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice . Another recent critical book by DuPlessis is Genders, Races, and Religious...See more

Poet-critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Ph.D., Columbia University) is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and as a poet and essayist. Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work , a book of essays, was published by University of Alabama Press in 2006; in the same year, Alabama reprinted DuPlessis's classic work The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice . Another recent critical book by DuPlessis is Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Her books of poetry are Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and DRAFTS. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, Unnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). A poem from this book appears in American Poetry 2004 . Torques: Drafts 58-76 appeared from Salt Publishing in October 2007 and Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is in press with Salt Publishing. See less