Contributors

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Contributor History

Gap, Conjunctions:13
Page, Conjunctions:15
From Draft 32: Renga, Conjunctions:30
Draft 38: Georgics and Shadow, Conjunctions:35
Draft 55: Quiptych, Conjunctions:40
From Draft 59: Flash Back, Online 11-16-2004
Draft LXX: Lexicon, Conjunctions:44
Draft 85: Hard Copy, Online 09-13-2007
Draft 82: Hinge, Conjunctions:50
Two Drafts, Conjunctions:53
Pages from Days and Works, Conjunctions:63 (63:315-325)
Useful Knots and How to Tie Them, Conjunctions:66
Body Politic: A Tenso, Conjunctions:69 (49–56)
Incomplete Enlightenment , Online 10-16-2018
Cosmos, A Nocturne, Conjunctions:72
The Entanglements: A Representation, Conjunctions:73
Adventures of the Book, Conjunctions:76
Four Water Poems, Conjunctions:80
The Rachel, Online 09-20-2023

Biography

Photograph © RBD

Selected Poems,1980-2020 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis was published by CHAX Press in 2022. A Long Essay on the Long Poem (University of Alabama Press) and the collage-poem book Life in Handkerchiefs (Materialist Press) both appeared in 2023. Expected soon is Daykeeping from Selva Oscura.

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In Print

Conjunctions:80

Ways of Water

Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Rachel

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

September 20, 2023

The Rachel stands tuned
to multiplicities,
aslant in a territory of longing,
where she becomes foreign.

What has she found?
She listens, acknowledges another sound,
diffuse, multiple,
pulsing thought, oscillations, whisperings,
never only one.

The Whorled

by Zachary Gary

September 13, 2023

I had yet to discover the source of that star, it came and it passed but from where it sprang and then fell to fading remained a mystery. In cycling its light lent its powers to coloring my tablecloth a lighter shade, relieving pigment from its duty to darken, except for those spots where I placed my bottles and cups, shielding only parts of the piece from fading, threads left closer to their original hues hewed to others abandoned as wraiths to their fates, a darker ring the mark of those who stayed behind.

Five Poems

by Donald Revell

September 6, 2023

Where the trees blackened, I saw,

Quickly, three deer lean into goldenness.

It seems, although wildfires rage

Out of control, this world remembers

Some portion of its first purposes:

Superfluous beauty