Thinking with the Poem Derek W. Vaillant New York became the economic

New York became the economic nerve center of the United States

It tells of a couple who long for a child

and "ghost lights

Just as Andy Bernal

small pink striped creatures peeking over the edge of a table

Thinking with the Poem Derek W. Vaillant New York became the economicBroad ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis's authorial interventions as a poet, scholar, and cultural critic steeped in the linguistic and political frames of her time. The writers included in this volume engage root level questions at the heart of DuPlessis's praxis as posed by her in a recent essay: ""What is a poem, what is a poet, what is an oeuvre, what is the 'poetic'?""