My Life and My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian

My Life and My Life in the Nineties

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My Life and My Life in the Nineties

Wesleyan University Press

My Life and My Life in the Nineties

by Lyn Hejinian

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New edition of one of the founding works of Language writing

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 postmodern canon. This Wesleyan edition includes the 45-part prose poem sequence along with a closely related ten-part work titled My Life in the Nineties. An experimental intervention into the autobiographical genre, My Life explores the many ways in which language--the things people say and the ways they say them--shapes not only their identity, but also the very world around them.
Book Details
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN:
9780819573513
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
152
Authors:
Lyn Hejinian
Published Date:
2013-03-07
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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