"Dippity Bix" Kim: You know what, mum.
Humans are myths, at war with one another. Selecting from over 25 years of work, the book offers an illuminating glimpse of Hejinian’s influences and preoccupations, especially the centrality of Gertrude Stein to her development as a writer and thinker. I could read this book once a year and love it for something new each time. I don't have the words to adequately describe what Lyn Hejinian has achieved here.
As a non-poet and rare poetry reader, I’m rarely impressed by this sort of high modernist plate-spinning trickery, unless it’s purely prose, but t. An excellent “poetic autobiography,” told in lyrical, repetitious, elliptical prose, slowly passing through a life with baffling clarity, bamboozling starkness and confuddling honesty. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000). I, for one, am very glad there is still the poetry of Lyn Hejinian." Claire Beynon (NZ) clarabATearthlight.co.nz, Read an article in the NZ Book Council E-newsletter on the. I don't mind, or I won't mind, where the verb "to care" might multiply. A native Californian, she teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Lyn Hejinian, essay, 2 prose poems.
She could only give a little shrug. Discussing the newly-anthologized status of language writing with Craig Dworkin in an interview originally published in Idiom #3, Hejinian noted “Both the big Messerli anthology and the Norton have the overt ambition to define and historicize a lot of activity, and they’re going to do that. It feels like a stream-of-consciousness Woolfian-Kundera daydream. Poet and critic Lisa Samuels, in a similar vein, has advocated the inclusion of My Life in the academic “canon.” This work, through its attention to alternative and multiple ways of telling, refuses to invoke the transparent language conventions that typically compose autobiography. The poet Juliana Spahr has written of Hejinian, “It is easier to trace the influence of language philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s aphoristic statement that ‘the limits of my language mean the limits of my world,’ or to apply Viktor Shklovsky’s theory of ‘making strange’ to Hejinian's poetry than it is to relate her work to the contemporary poetry usually anthologized in the Norton or Heath anthologies of American literature.”
To see what your friends thought of this book. Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian is a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. We’d love your help. I liked her last 8 sections best, written 8 years after the original work, which contained a little more narrative.
Reviewing the book for the Boston Review, Brian Kim Stefans alleged that by “extending the frame of the ‘poet’s essay’ beyond issues of form and tradition and into an open-ended philosophical dialogue that engages with one in the very act of reading a book, alone at home or in a crowded cafe.” Hejinian’s continued interest in notions of the “experimental” is evident in some of her most recent work, including Saga/Circus (2009). which you would be excused from not guessing at seeing the title. She pulls herself and her readers up short when she parodies one of her own best known lines: 'Now a pause, now a rose, and now a small coffin, Bitch!'
I can't believe this predates 'The Guard.' A blue room is always dark. 1941) is a poet, editor, and professor in the English department at UC Berkeley. Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. It is as if one splashed in the water lost by one's tears. Consider a contribution today. —Anne Boyer, author of A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, "Organized as a three-part trial, the book articulates a timely political consciousness: one of war, fascism, and a 'not necessarily melancholy deactivation of will.'" Some recent favorite features from poetryfoundation.org. She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and the co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press.
Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian is a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. May 1st 2002 As far as the general narrative, which forms a big, big part of My Life, it's hard why I should care in particular about this one upper middle class kid with a pony. Wonderful choice of words, high musicality and great use of poetry. A new anger and urgency emerge in these poems. A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, roundingThe gap left by things which have already happenedLeaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to doBut that.
She has also been co-editor of Poetics Journal for over twenty years. And for once to a country that did not speak another language.
Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. My father had filled an old apothecary jar with what he called "sea glass,"... 1. The language wasn't bad, but I'm not so sure why other reviewers here are cumming in their athleisure wear about it. The chapter headings usually reappear embedded in the subsequent chapter text, hinting at mathematical structures or arrangements between chapters (or even sentences?).
the edge of the moving air! The alternative form that Hejinian uses most frequently is what has come to be called the “new sentence,” a form of prose poem composed mainly of sentences that have no clear transitions.
Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and … No review necessary. An example of Hejinian’s “open text” is the autobiographical My Life. Refresh and try again. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Her poetry is characterized by an unusual lyricism and descriptive engagement with the everyday. All rights reserved. The family had little money but plenty of food. What else could I possibly say?
But poetic memoirs of childhood have been done so, so much better by people like Walter Benjamin and Nathalie Sarraute, and by aiming for the rubric of “poetry” rather than memoir, this means I'm going to be VERY persnickety about language (and not, for example, allow all caps, eep).
On a trip to Leningrad with her husband, Hejinian met a variety of contemporary poets who would provide the inspiration for Leningrad (1991). Hejinian, Whitman, and the politics of sleep. I often think confusion and consequent concerted attention to Hejinian is a great way to approach her writing. Poetry about the joys and challenges of life post-career. It also led to Oxata (1991), a work that displays Hejinian’s interest in form, prose and the self-disclosures of language. Whether breathing or holding the breath, it was the same thing, driving through the tunnel from one sun to the next under a hot brown hill.
He broke the radio silence.
—Publishers Weekly.
There is no comment submitted by members.. © Poems are the property of their respective owners. There don't seem to be any slouches... more », The pine branches reach—the rain! the sun! Surrealist poetry is a new thing for me and I love the poetic images that set me in a new direction, but my thirst for narrative and vicarious exeperience goes unsatisfied and I'm left wanting more.
It is a typical Language movement text, even written collaboratively, as is common in the movement. Many people, in my experience, will come up against this book (because you don't merely read it--you come up against it) and say that they find it impenetrable or heavy-handed.
(Translator, with Elena Balashova) Arkadi Dragomoschenko. Just read it. Copyright © 1995-2007 Dia Art Foundation. Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher.She is often associated with the Language poets and is known for her landmark work My Life (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000).
Pitch perfect: Australian versifiers, Kath and Kim. She was editor of Tuumba Press from 1976 to 1984, when it pioneered in issuing a series of fifty Language poet chapbooks. Start by marking “My Life” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It is the wind slamming the doors. Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. Her work, repeatedly concerned with biography or autobiography, explores the relationship between alternative writing practices and the subjectivity that these genres often obscure. Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Vanessa Place tweets Lyn Hejinian’s life softly as her song. Microreview: Lyn Hejinian, My Life and My Life in the Nineties.
I felt like Lyn Hejinian got so close to something great. 'Attention: anarchy!
I felt like Lyn Hejinian got so close to something great. second five-star read of the year so far. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.”, San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award (1987), In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels, Author and Bookstore Owner Emma Straub Returns with 'All Adults Here'. three goats!Girls on razor scooters turn the corner and scootAutonomy actually shows, it shines amidst the stars of ...... more », A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, roundingThe gap left by things which have already happenedLeaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to doBut that. Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. "Lyn Hejinian’s books have always been characterized by their intellectual curiosity and openness. My mother had climbed into the garbage can in order to stamp down the accumulated trash, but the can was knocked off balance, and when she fell she broke her arm.
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