As words are bereft of directionality and their paronomastic virtualities unfold, a textual space opens up where their "whirlwind" of poetic potentialities may "roar." Blau DuPlessis' project thus involves revisiting a number of intertextual as well as intermedial sites, entering into ironic dialogues with other poets, but also tracing the destiny of the gaze in order to restore the tension between the figural and the literal that is temporarily silenced by Duchamp's work, thus allowing for the first person voice to be partially reclaimed.
The volume's telos is to explore modalities of telling the loss of a unitary voice by confronting the reader with the demands of multifold.
In Drafts 1-38, Toll Rachel Blau DuPlessis undertakes the task of mourning the I of post-romantic lyrical utterance to the benefit of an aesthetics of the fold which might afford the poet an escape from the gendered dichotomies that have shaped her heritage.
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