Throughout, she has reveled in the liberating play of words themselves. Fraser's devotion to discovery, her willingness to risk, and her profoundly lyrical sense of the intimate place her not only among our most daring poetic innovators, but also mark her as one of the pre-emiment poets of the past thirty years.
Rupture induces rapture.
That is, the foregrounding of process opens a new understanding of and relation to poetic praxis. Fraser embraces the uncertainty this brings with it. She felt the possibility of doing nothing to stop it. Such a poetry has often displayed, among Language Poets for instance, a level of linguistic abstraction in which the body often, if inadvertently, is relegated to a secondary, even invisible, status. Not content to push only for a competent reading of feminine experience, Fraser has trespassed on the sacred centrality of our culture's idea of language as a transparent, a-political medium in which experience is somehow naively reflected without mediation.