Download or read book A Long Essay on the Long Poem written by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For decades, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has shown readers how genres, forms, and the literal acts of writing and reception can be understood as sites of struggle. In her own words, "writing is...a praxis... in which the author disappears into a process, into a community, into discontinuities, and into a desire for discovery." It is cause for celebration, then, that we have another work of warm, incisive, explatory writing from DuPlessis in A Long Essay on the Long Poem..."