Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Emily Dickinson, one of the best known American poets. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ...

DuPlessis editedThe Selected Letters of George Oppen which appeared in 1990

DuPlessis teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University and is the author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), both from Indiana University Press; The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge, 1990) and Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – September 27, 1961, Zürich), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ...

DuPlessis is the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke University Press, 1990), and the co-editor with Peter Quartermain of The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics ( University of Alabama Press, 1999 ). George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the founders of the Objectivist group of poets. ...

The author of eleven books of poetry including her long poem project which was begun in 1986 and is collected in two works so far: Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and DRAFTS Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Salt Publishing is a small press publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. ...

DuPlessis has received the Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Prize (2002) as a scholar poet. In 2002 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship for Artists.

External links

• Author Homepage at EPC
• The Gendered Marvelous essay by DuPlessis on Barbara Guest
• Standing Corporeally in One’s Time]essay by DuPlessis on Anne Waldman
• "Draft 42: Epistle, Studios" poem by DuPlessis at Jacket Magazine