Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected here in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.

DuPlessis has created one of the most sustained and magnificent meditations written by a contemporary poet on loss, presence, and the haunting persistence of language to redeem what has vanished.

• AcknowledgmentsGrid of Drafts 1-38, Toll and Drafts 39-57: PledgeDraft 39: SplitDraft 40: One LyricDraft 41: Of ThisDraft 42: Epistle, StudiosDraft 43: GapDraft 44: StrettoDraft 45: FireDraft 46: EdgeDraft 47: Printed MatterDraft 48: Being AstonishedDraft 49: Turns, an InterpretationDraft L: Scholia and RestlessnessDraft 51: Clay SongsDraft 52: MidrashDraft 53: EclogueDraft 54: TildeDraft 55:  QuiptychDraft 56: Bildungsgedicht with AppleDraft 57: Workplace: NekuiaDraft, unnumbered: PrécisNotes

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected here in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.

DuPlessis has created one of the most sustained and magnificent meditations written by a contemporary poet on loss, presence, and the haunting persistence of language to redeem what has vanished.

• AcknowledgmentsGrid of Drafts 1-38, Toll and Drafts 39-57: PledgeDraft 39: SplitDraft 40: One LyricDraft 41: Of ThisDraft 42: Epistle, StudiosDraft 43: GapDraft 44: StrettoDraft 45: FireDraft 46: EdgeDraft 47: Printed MatterDraft 48: Being AstonishedDraft 49: Turns, an InterpretationDraft L: Scholia and RestlessnessDraft 51: Clay SongsDraft 52: MidrashDraft 53: EclogueDraft 54: TildeDraft 55:  QuiptychDraft 56: Bildungsgedicht with AppleDraft 57: Workplace: NekuiaDraft, unnumbered: PrécisNotes

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected here in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.

DuPlessis has created one of the most sustained and magnificent meditations written by a contemporary poet on loss, presence, and the haunting persistence of language to redeem what has vanished.

• AcknowledgmentsGrid of Drafts 1-38, Toll and Drafts 39-57: PledgeDraft 39: SplitDraft 40: One LyricDraft 41: Of ThisDraft 42: Epistle, StudiosDraft 43: GapDraft 44: StrettoDraft 45: FireDraft 46: EdgeDraft 47: Printed MatterDraft 48: Being AstonishedDraft 49: Turns, an InterpretationDraft L: Scholia and RestlessnessDraft 51: Clay SongsDraft 52: MidrashDraft 53: EclogueDraft 54: TildeDraft 55:  QuiptychDraft 56: Bildungsgedicht with AppleDraft 57: Workplace: NekuiaDraft, unnumbered: PrécisNotes