The collection features Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983, showcasing her innovative approach to form and language. These works expand her existing published collections, highlighting her linguistic experimentation before she shifted to project-oriented writing. Accompanied by a new Preface and critical essays, this volume serves as both a significant addition to Hejinian's oeuvre and a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in avant-garde poetry.
Lyn Hejinian Book order (chronological)
Lyn Hejinian is an American poet and essayist, closely associated with the Language poets movement. Her work is known for its innovative approach, exploring the nature of language and its relationship to reality. She is recognized for her distinctive style that pushes the boundaries of literary expression through experimentation with form and structure. Hejinian's writing also encompasses essays and translation, offering profound insights into literary thought and its impact.
Allegorical Moments
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world.
My Life and My Life in the Nineties
- 152 pages
- 6 hours of reading
As a foundational text in the Language writing movement, this new edition offers a fresh perspective on its innovative approach to poetry and linguistic exploration. It emphasizes the interplay between language and meaning, challenging traditional narrative forms and encouraging readers to engage with the text in new ways. The book's significance lies in its experimental style and its impact on contemporary literature, making it essential for those interested in the evolution of poetic expression.
Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir. PART 10 is the final installment of the Grand Piano "experiment." This volume draws some of its themes from experimental music, current Amercian politics, newspaper headlines, and an array of influnces (Kathy Acker, Lorenzo Thomas, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Robert Grenier, Larry Eigner, Clark Coolidge). At the same time, almost all the pieces of the ending volume make some kind of return to the complicated impulses that initally launched the autobiography, resistance to autobiography, writing, language-as-such, memory, time, and especially the rich historical meeting point of these ten authors in the Bay Area literary scene(s) of the 1970s.
The Grand Piano Part 8
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir. Part Eight in the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE GRAND PART 8 continues to mark the events, movements and intersections among ten contributing 1970s Language poets. "THE GRAND PIANO is itself a veering off and an investigation and a playing or experimenting with the materials of language, history, textuality, and temporality, the personal and political, poetry and community....There is an abundance to linger over in THE GRAND PIANO even as and perhaps because of the large gaps and contradictions"--Robin Tremblay-McGaw.