Re… This small book-length poem by Hejinian (My Life; The Cold of Poetry; etc.) Still, a modern poet is unlikely to come straight out and articulate the contours of her relationship to ordinariness in no uncertain terms. Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2006. Poetry. Lyn Hejinian: Selected full-text books and articles. Keyword searches may also use the operators In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Re… Something went wrong. The Post-Apollo Press; 1st Edition (March 1, 2000), Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2017. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Lyn Hejinian 1941– Lyn Hejinian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 17, 1941. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. presents a loosely linked series of everyday, abstracted pleasures where time is tactile yet immeasurable; when recognized, though, it is a revelation: "Now is a blinding instant one single explosion but somehow some part of it gets accentuated/ And each time the moment falls the emphasis of the moment falls into time differently/ … Always impossible and somehow insulting to say things "about" poetry. Hejinian's writing is very pure and original, a form all her own. Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2000. It takes me a while to truly feel "the pleasure of impossibility" (404) in Hejinian's essay, but after reading it several times I begin to settle into the hurdy-gurdy rhythm of her "accordioning" sentences (384). It's also one of those books that I automatically pick when I'm looking for inspiration to get my own writing started. 1, Autumn 2009, {{filterTypeLookup[searchItem.filterType]}}, {{searchTypeLookup[searchItem.searchType]}}, Includes the poems "A pause, a rose, something on paper," "As for we who “love to be astonished”," "It is the writer’s object," "In the dark sky there," and "At x o’clock I shook," "Unorganized octave ashes scattered in" and "A permanent sense of weirdness is the precursor" by Lyn Hejinian beginning on p. 342, "La Faustienne" by Lyn Hejinian begins on p. 252, A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature, Chap. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Hejinian's characteristic linguistic intensity and philosophical approach are present in this book- length poem. 4 "Language Poetry and Collective Life", Search for more books and articles on Lyn Hejinian, Primary Sources (Literary and Historical). My Life and My Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan Poetry Series), Sleeping with the Dictionary (Volume 4) (New California Poetry). Read 74 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. (Mar.) Her most recent books include A BORDER COMEDY (Granary Books, 2001), SLOWLY and THE BEGINNER (both published by Tuumba Press, 2002), THE FATALIST (Omnidawn, 2003), SAGA/CIRCUS (Omnidawn, 2008), and THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES (Omnidawn, 2012). It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. 12 "“What I wanted was nothing to do with monuments”: Erring and Lyn Hejinian’s The Guard", Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, "Performativity: Lyn Hejinian" begins on p. 116, Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life, Chap. Please try again. The American pragmatist-like guiding principle here seems to be that one should not linger over thoughts or linguistic structures that could not, in fact, survive the exigencies of the quotidian, yet we are assured that this process is not mere relativism: "There is no 'correct path.' By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies as described in our, By Steven Gould Axelrod; Camille Roman; Thomas Travisano, The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Please try your request again later. I often want to carry it around with me, just to read when I have a minute. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work. See if your friends have read any of Lyn Hejinian's books. An unknown error has occurred. Error rating book. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”, Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. Her first book-length collection, Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1978), investigates the confessional systems of memory and the difficulties of portraying these systems without smoothing over the questions they raise. AND, OR, NOT, “ ”, ( ), We use cookies to deliver a better user experience and to show you ads based on your interests. The reader is expertly guided through this neo-Bergsonian time-space by stresses that don't fall into regularity; likewise, conclusions appear, but lead only to the promise of further discoveries, of possible futures. There was a problem loading your book clubs. This near-treatise by one of our major experimental poets succeeds on its own terms, "in its own right." This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. It doesn't fit in any particular "box," but follows many threads that weave together and then unweave, as if she is always questioning, but gently. Hejinian's work explores how personal identity may be constructed by and through language. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Her experimental autobiography My Life, first published in 1980, is the purest example of this poetic project, and established her as one of the foremost members of the Language school of poetry. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. There's a problem loading this menu right now. And that's more than I can say for many other books on the subject. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Happiness does not equal banality or "prettiness." Welcome back. " The poem nonetheless ends beautifully, clearly coming down on the side of uncontaminated, yet non-solipsistic pleasure as a quality worth fighting for: "No, happily I'm feeling the wind in its own right rather than as of particular pertinence to us as a windy moment/ I hear its lines leaving in a rumor the silence of which is to catch on quickly to arrange things in preparation for what will come next/ That may be the thing and logically we go then it departs." Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Poet, essayist, and translator, she is also the author and coauthor of several books of poetry, most recently Tribunal (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019).

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