Surge

A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics a book of passionate poetic energies and odic verve Surge is the provocative open-ended ending to DuPlessis's twenty-six year long poem project Drafts. This work exemplifies a tertium quid transcending poetic schools and critical binaries with its fusions of intellection and emotion with its reassessments of Dante Eliot Duchamp with its witty genre experimentation with its strands of eco-poetics feminist analysis conceptual torques and unstinting poetic commitment. The book contains a contemporary mirror of The Waste Land a striking political-emotional reflection on divided cities an investigation of gender in a work of poet's theater a ballad on science and reality an index a canzone and--over all--a scintillating texture of meditation in which the analytic lyric is intensified by the refractions of gloss.