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Lyn Hejinian är en av centralgestalterna i den amerikanska L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E-rörelsen. I Mitt liv , hennes mest kända bok, låter hon självbiografin blandas med formexperiment och traditionellt berättande. Vid trettiosju års ålder skrev hon den först...

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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem "My Life", a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. "The Language of Inquiry"...

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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is ...

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The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. Guest editor Lyn Hejinian, acclaimed for her own innovative writing, has chosen seventy-five important new poems and contributed a ...

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The final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian's Lola the Interpreter is a masterful prose poem in which an "I" and a host of quasi-characters, including Lola herself, engage in interpreting not just ...

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The final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian's Lola the Interpreter is a masterful prose poem in which an "I" and a host of quasi-characters, including Lola herself, engage in interpreting not just ...

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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the ...

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Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical 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 existent...

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_Allegorical 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. Traditionall...

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Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with five poems written from 1963 to 1965, The Proposition collects Hejinian's previously uncollected works from 1963-198...

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As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century's most significant works of literary theory.It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as pro...

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The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with ...

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The three works of poetry that constitute Tribunal were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and-especially in the United States-reassertions of white supremacy...

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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 i...

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Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale-telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murd...

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The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here, this e...

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An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting's longstanding associations with suppression, pr...

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An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting's longstanding associations with suppression, pr...

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The Writing Experiment demystifies the process of creative writing, showing that successful work does not arise from talent or inspiration alone. Hazel Smith breaks down writing into incremental stages, revealing processes that are often unconscio...

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Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry-and of art in general-in a violent culture. She addresses issues such as the art of listening, the body ...

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The Imaginary Present by award-winning poet and professor Amy Catanzano explores cutting-edge scientific fields such as particle physics and astrophysics, and branches of physics such as quantum theory and relativity, through a poetic vision equal...

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"English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to...

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Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular c...

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An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language ...

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An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language ...

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Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art. Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally on...

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Expanding Authorship collects Peter Middleton's significant essays exploring how the agency of the disputed figure of the author has increasingly extended beyond an individual, narratable self. In four sections--Sound, Communities, Collaboration, ...

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, r...

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, r...

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