Written in 1978 when Hejinian was 37, this intensely personal autobiographical work hovers between prose and poetry. With 37 sections of 37 sentences each, it encompasses a year of the poet's life; upon revision eight years later, she added eight sections and eight sentences to each. Rich lyricism, repetition, and lush imagery make this ...
Hejinian, a major figure in American poetics and a force in the language poetry movement, eloquently shares her critical perceptions in this first volume of her essays, lectures, meditations, and introductions to others' work. Drawn from the last 25 years of her important teaching and writing career, here she explores, among other subjects, Sir ...
Like many of Shklovsky's works, Third Factory is not easily classified. In part it is a memoir of the three "Factories" that influenced his development as a human being and as a writer, yet the events depicted within the book are fictionalised and conveyed with the poetic verve and playfulness of form that have made Shklovsky a major figure in ...
Self-consciously postmodern, Jena Osman's debut includes poems written in ways meant to question the dominance of the lyric. Collages, footnote mazes, musical scores, and even the periodic table become subjects of or structures for poems here. This book was chosen by Lyn Hejinian for the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize.
A collection of twelve formally distinct poems collaboratively written by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. The two poets began working together in 1992, and over the years they have developed a repertoire of forms and procedures, all intended to extend the possibilities for invention, play, and the unfolding of unforeseeable meaning. Both poets ...
Two distinct, extended poems present an ensemble of memorable characters in moving, humorous, and mesmerizing motifs. The themes of duality, gender, dichotomy, and genre are explored, blending them with exciting and lyrical language. Beautifully illustrating a diverse array of topics, this examination makes an excellent addition to any collection ...
Called "one of the most ambitious long poems of the nineties" and "one of the very best" by Marjorie Perloff, OXOTA ("the hunt" in Russian) explores the environment of Soviet Russia, where Hejinian was a visitor in 1983. Tensions implicit in the work include issues of narrative and autobiography.
Poetry. A collaborative effort by two of today's most famous poets. Equal parts poetry and philosophy, Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino's collaboration is organized around the act and idea of seeing, written in the form of a literary dialogue. "We were interested in a joint investigation into the workings of experience, " writes Hejinian in the ...
In 1990 Sun & Moon Press published the first American translation of the brilliant Soviet poet Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Description. The book garnered a great deal of attention in the United States and led one critic, Marjorie Perloff, to ponder about the possibility of influence of contemporary Soviet poetry upon American writers. Perloff notes ...
Written in 1978 when Hejinian was 37, this intensely personal autobiographical work hovers between prose and poetry. With 37 sections of 37 sentences each, it encompasses a year of the poet's life; upon revision eight years later, she added eight sections and eight sentences to each. Rich lyricism, repetition, and lush imagery make this ...
This is a book-length, syntactically surprising poem divided into many sections, it is interspersed with delightful descriptions of daily experience with references to illustrious writers and thinkers of the past and their systems of philosophical inquiry. It offers humorous reflection upon our species' endless attempts to transmit insight ...
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