Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian

Language of Inquiry

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Language of Inquiry

University of California Press

Language of Inquiry

by Lyn Hejinian

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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 a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address.

Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN:
9780520217003
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
447
Authors:
Lyn Hejinian
Published Date:
2000-12-27
Language:
English
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About Lyn Hejinian

A founding figure of the Language poetry movement, Lyn Hejinian (1941-2024) was a poet, essayist, translator, and publisher who taught in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her prose-poem My Life first appeared from Burning Deck in 1980 and was twice expanded and reprinted. Among her many collections are Writing Is an Aid to Memory (The Figures, 1978), The Fatalist (Omnidawn Publishing, 2003), Saga/Circus (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008), and Tribunal (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019). Her essays were gathered in The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000). A native Californian, Hejinian edited Tuumba Press and coedited Poetics Journal. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006 and held a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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