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Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the author of the multivolume long poem Drafts (written between 1986 and 2012), of the recent collage poems NUMBERS (2018) and Graphic Novella (2015), and of a second long poem in book-length episodes called Traces, with Days, a set that includes this Black Square book. In her critical career, she has written extensively show more on gender, poetry and poetics; on objectivist poets (as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen); and on modern and contemporary Anglophone poetry. She lives in Philadelphia. show less