Turquoise nuggets kneaded into bread
became that bread,
with an enhancing, crunchy
blue-green nourishment.
Is that the moon? or are you just glad to see me?
Remember: Proof stage is not the time for "improving" your manuscript!
Oh, the pleasures of high color, chunks of tone, low lurchings, bad conjunctures, and
wild lights--if this is poetry, let's put some in every household.
111. Gloss 56. Turquoise.
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis poet, critic, collagist, is the author of the multi-volume long poem Drafts, (1986-2012), from Salt Publishing and Wesleyan, called ‘one of the major poetic achievements of our time’ by Ron Silliman. Post-Drafts books include
Interstices, Graphic Novella, Days and Works and both the collage-poem
Numbers and
Around the Day in 80 Worlds, both slated for 2018. She has written a trilogy of critical essays on gender and poetics,
The Pink Guitar, Blue Studios and Purple Passages, and several other critical books. She has edited the
Selected Letters of George Oppen, a collective memoir
The Oppens Remembered, coedited
The Objectivist Nexus and has written on Oppen, Zukofsky and Niedecker. Also published in 2017 was
Selected Poems/Poesie scelte, 1978-2015, translated into Italian by Anny Ballardini.
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