Marble Paper: Toward a Feminist “History of Poetry”

Abstract

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is professor of English at Temple University. Her most recent books in criticism and poetry are Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (2001) and Drafts 1-38, Toll (2001). In 2002 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for poetry, and she was named the third recipient of the Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Award for lifetime contributions to American poetry as a poet-scholar.