JEANNE HEUVING & RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS
Monday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m.

A terrific Seattle writer, critic and University of Washington professor, Jeanne Heuving, is joined here this evening by one of this country's eminent poets and critics, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, for what should be an engaged, stimulating evening. Jeanne Heuving is here with a newly published of poetry, prose, and image, Incapacity (Chiasmus). "Enter: Cocteau's ghost. Jean guides Jeanne to the mirror called writing as dreams, diaries, travels, fantasies, and collage open a shadow land of the purest deprivation and desire. In this long anticipated romance of the world, spirits of air and snow conjure volcanoes, cats presage catastrophe, lovers go haywire, but the real astonishments are the words. Page after page, Jeanne Heuving turns negation against itself, turns introspection to quest, and elegance to the surest sign of peril.
Here from Philadelphia, where she is professor of English at Temple is Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Her most recent of six books of poetry and four works of criticism, is the extraordinary book-length long poem, Drafts 1 - 38, Toll (Wesleyan). "DuPlessis reinforces the subversive possibilities of modernist/projectivist field poetics by approaching page space as a register of the social dynamics, including the gender dynamics of marginalization." - Lynn Keller.

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