Hejinian, Lyn
Overview
| Works: | 265 works in 505 publications in 5 languages and 14,529 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Biographies Portraits Novels in verse Fiction Prose poems History Periodicals Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Printer, Translator, Correspondent |
| Classifications: | PS3558.E4735, 811.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Lyn Hejinian
- The language of inquiry by Lyn Hejinian( )
- My life by Lyn Hejinian( )
- Changing subjects : digressions in modern American poetry by Srikanth Reddy( )
- Experimentalism as reciprocal communication in contemporary American poetry : John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman by Elina Siltanen( )
- Poetic investigations : singing the holes in history by Paul Naylor( Book )
- Procedural form in postmodern American poetry : Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian by David Huntsperger( Book )
- The grand piano : an experiment in collective autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980( Book )
- Cultural criticism in women's experimental writing : the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Lyn Hejinian, and Susan Howe by Kornelia Freitag( Book )
- My life in the nineties by Lyn Hejinian( Book )
- Reading error : the lyric and contemporary poetry by Nerys Williams( Book )
- Aerial 10 : Lyn Hejinian( Book )
- The nonconformist's poem radical "poetics of autobiography" in the works of Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe and Leslie Scalapino by Kathy-Ann Tan( Book )
- Los mejores poetas americanos contemporáneos : Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten by Manuel Brito( Book )
- The grand piano. an experiment in collective autobiography : San Francisco, 1975-1980( Book )
- The grand piano. an experiment in collective autobiography : San Francisco, 1975-1980( Book )
- Grand piano( Book )
- 80 Langton Street residence program( Book )
- Experimental subjects : identity and subjectivity in postmodern poetry by American women by Amy Jeanne Moorman Robbins( )
- Writing on the margins : the experimental poetry of Lyn Hejinian, Yang Lian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko by Jacob Edmond( )
- 'The contents of that absent reality' : language, being and memory in Lyn Hejinian's My Life by Katrina Zaat( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Lyn Hejinian
A guide to Poetics Journal : writing in the expanded field, 1982/1998, with the copublication of Poetics Journal digital archive by
Lyn Hejinian(
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14 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 1,199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics
14 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 1,199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics
Poetics journal digital archive by
Lyn Hejinian(
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11 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues were published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. Edited by internationally recognized poet/critics Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, the journal presents major conversations and debates, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. This archive re-presents virtually all the articles originally published in Poetics Journal, organized alphabetically by author and in searchable form. It features indexes by contributors, keywords, and volume. The writing that appeared in Poetics Journal reflects the development of a range of creative and critical approaches in avant-garde poetry and art over two decades. In making this content newly available, the editors hope to preserve the generative enthusiasm for innovative writing and art it represents, while encouraging new uses and contexts
11 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues were published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. Edited by internationally recognized poet/critics Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, the journal presents major conversations and debates, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. This archive re-presents virtually all the articles originally published in Poetics Journal, organized alphabetically by author and in searchable form. It features indexes by contributors, keywords, and volume. The writing that appeared in Poetics Journal reflects the development of a range of creative and critical approaches in avant-garde poetry and art over two decades. In making this content newly available, the editors hope to preserve the generative enthusiasm for innovative writing and art it represents, while encouraging new uses and contexts
The best American poetry, 2004(
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4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of a great variety of American poetry published in 2004
4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of a great variety of American poetry published in 2004
A border comedy by
Lyn Hejinian(
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6 editions published between 1997 and 2001 in English and held by 297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published between 1997 and 2001 in English and held by 297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The cell by
Lyn Hejinian(
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3 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Lyn Hejinian is one of today's most esteemed and widely read poets. Her poetic autobiography, My Life, has gained an almost legendary reputation, and is taught in many university and college courses. The Cell, her latest Poetic sequence, was written over a period of her life from October 6, 1986, to January 21, 1989, a time of exploration of the relation of the self to the world, of the objective "person" to the subjective being "as private as my arm." As the title suggests, "the Cell" of this work connotes several things, some contradictory: biological life, imprisonment, closure, and circulation. But it is just the relationships and oppositions of these that Hejinian searches out in a poetry that, like her previous work, displays a magical blend of logic and contradiction, of narrative impetus stopped in its tracks by aphoristic wit."--BOOK JACKET. "These poems will continue to establish her as the inheritor of the rich and intense language of American writers such as Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson."--BOOK JACKET
3 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Lyn Hejinian is one of today's most esteemed and widely read poets. Her poetic autobiography, My Life, has gained an almost legendary reputation, and is taught in many university and college courses. The Cell, her latest Poetic sequence, was written over a period of her life from October 6, 1986, to January 21, 1989, a time of exploration of the relation of the self to the world, of the objective "person" to the subjective being "as private as my arm." As the title suggests, "the Cell" of this work connotes several things, some contradictory: biological life, imprisonment, closure, and circulation. But it is just the relationships and oppositions of these that Hejinian searches out in a poetry that, like her previous work, displays a magical blend of logic and contradiction, of narrative impetus stopped in its tracks by aphoristic wit."--BOOK JACKET. "These poems will continue to establish her as the inheritor of the rich and intense language of American writers such as Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson."--BOOK JACKET
Oxota : a short Russian novel by
Lyn Hejinian(
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11 editions published between 1991 and 2019 in English and French and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Over the course of nearly a decade (1983-1991), author Lyn Hejinian visited the USSR seven times, staying frequently with her friends the poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and his wife Zina in Leningrad. During this period, she embarked on translating into English several volumes of Dragomoshcheko's poetry, and the two poets began an extensive correspondence, exchanging hundreds of letters until Dragomoshchenko's death in 2012. During her fifth visit, in conversation with Dragomoshchenko and other poets, she decided to write a novel reflecting her experiences of literary and lived life in Leningrad and Moscow. Cognizant of a general sense that the Russian novel is stereotypically "long," she determined that hers would be "short." What resulted is an experimental novel whose structure (284 chapters, each 14 lines long) pays homage to Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, which is generally regarded to be the first Russian novel: a verse novel composed in 14-line stanzas. From time to time, various members of Dragomoshchenko's circle of friends offered suggestions for the novel, as readers will note. There's abundant narrative content, but anecdotes and events are presented in non-linear form, since they unfolded over extended periods of time and thus came to Hejinian's attention piecemeal. Oxota (which means variously "huntress," "hunt," and "desire" in Russian) is a novel in which contexts, rather than contents, are kept in the foreground."--Amazon.com
11 editions published between 1991 and 2019 in English and French and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Over the course of nearly a decade (1983-1991), author Lyn Hejinian visited the USSR seven times, staying frequently with her friends the poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and his wife Zina in Leningrad. During this period, she embarked on translating into English several volumes of Dragomoshcheko's poetry, and the two poets began an extensive correspondence, exchanging hundreds of letters until Dragomoshchenko's death in 2012. During her fifth visit, in conversation with Dragomoshchenko and other poets, she decided to write a novel reflecting her experiences of literary and lived life in Leningrad and Moscow. Cognizant of a general sense that the Russian novel is stereotypically "long," she determined that hers would be "short." What resulted is an experimental novel whose structure (284 chapters, each 14 lines long) pays homage to Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, which is generally regarded to be the first Russian novel: a verse novel composed in 14-line stanzas. From time to time, various members of Dragomoshchenko's circle of friends offered suggestions for the novel, as readers will note. There's abundant narrative content, but anecdotes and events are presented in non-linear form, since they unfolded over extended periods of time and thus came to Hejinian's attention piecemeal. Oxota (which means variously "huntress," "hunt," and "desire" in Russian) is a novel in which contexts, rather than contents, are kept in the foreground."--Amazon.com
My life by
Lyn Hejinian(
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27 editions published between 1980 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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."--p. [4] of cover
27 editions published between 1980 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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."--p. [4] of cover
The book of a thousand eyes by
Lyn Hejinian(
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5 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 196 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinian?s book is a compendium of "night works"?lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales, attempts to understand at day?s end some of the day?s events, dream narratives, erotic or occasionally bawdy ditties, etc. The poems explore and play with languages of diverse stages of consciousness and realms of imagination. Though they may not be redemptive in effect, the diverse works that comprise The Book of a Thousand Eyes argue for the possibilities of a merry, pained, celebratory, mournful, stubborn commitment to life
5 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 196 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinian?s book is a compendium of "night works"?lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales, attempts to understand at day?s end some of the day?s events, dream narratives, erotic or occasionally bawdy ditties, etc. The poems explore and play with languages of diverse stages of consciousness and realms of imagination. Though they may not be redemptive in effect, the diverse works that comprise The Book of a Thousand Eyes argue for the possibilities of a merry, pained, celebratory, mournful, stubborn commitment to life
The cold of poetry by
Lyn Hejinian(
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4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 184 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poetry of the surreal. In The Person, she writes: "Let's get isolated / The temporal is dread / Is there a name / for the imploding series / consciousness of consciousness / Realism and depth perception / The audacious science of the thought / of poetry / Person / holding picture of / person holding picture of ... / Anxiety in space."
4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 184 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poetry of the surreal. In The Person, she writes: "Let's get isolated / The temporal is dread / Is there a name / for the imploding series / consciousness of consciousness / Realism and depth perception / The audacious science of the thought / of poetry / Person / holding picture of / person holding picture of ... / Anxiety in space."
The unfollowing by
Lyn Hejinian(
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3 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry are not easily separated in the play of human emotions. And they are all the proper, anarchic medium for staying alive
3 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry are not easily separated in the play of human emotions. And they are all the proper, anarchic medium for staying alive
The fatalist by
Lyn Hejinian(
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7 editions published between 2003 and 2018 in English and Danish and held by 139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published between 2003 and 2018 in English and Danish and held by 139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Writing is an aid to memory by
Lyn Hejinian(
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6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"I am always conscious of the disquieting runs of life slipping by," writes Lyn Hejinian in the Preface to this major early work of poetry. "Necessity is the limit with forgetfulness, but it remains undefined. Memory is the girth, or again." In this incredible work, Hejinian takes the idea of memory as something repeated, or "a gain," something that contributes and advances presentness. First published by The Figures in 1978, this work has long been unavailable and has been highly sought by the numerous readers and students of Hejinian's work. Her works My Life, The Cell, and The Cold of Poetry are taught in universities internationally, and have created a large audience for her writing. Writing Is an Aid to Memory will make available, once again, an important part of her oeuvre
6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"I am always conscious of the disquieting runs of life slipping by," writes Lyn Hejinian in the Preface to this major early work of poetry. "Necessity is the limit with forgetfulness, but it remains undefined. Memory is the girth, or again." In this incredible work, Hejinian takes the idea of memory as something repeated, or "a gain," something that contributes and advances presentness. First published by The Figures in 1978, this work has long been unavailable and has been highly sought by the numerous readers and students of Hejinian's work. Her works My Life, The Cell, and The Cold of Poetry are taught in universities internationally, and have created a large audience for her writing. Writing Is an Aid to Memory will make available, once again, an important part of her oeuvre
Past lives : photographs by
Martha Casanave(
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2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Past Lives, Martha Casanave's first book of photographs, clearly demonstrates her fertile eye and her widely ranging sensibility. The book's five sections--Portraits, Nudes, Narratives, An American in the Soviet Union and Out in the Cold: Leningrad in Winter--reveal strikingly different facets of a single photographic vision. Portraits finds people, often couples, straightforwardly posed but clearly comfortable in their own habitats. These familiar surroundings provide a rich context for the eloquence and individuality of the faces. Nudes, on the other hand, lets bodies speak for themselves more formalistically. Casanave has found a density of posture and backdrop, of figure and ground, that is highly expressive. Narratives moves into a mysterious world of moody drama, of shadowy presences, caught motion, half-glimpsed encounters. An American in the Soviet Union is a lively suite of tinted images, plunging right into the midst of life, but "colored" by a foreigner's heightened receptivity, Leningrad in Winter surprises us with an entirely unexpected glimpse of the atmosphere and spirit of another place. These chilly prospects, almost entirely unpeopled, were captured with a pinhole camera. Their consequent blur arrives in the eye like an already distant memory. Past Lives offers an unusually varied portfolio of this prize-winning photographer's work from the past fifteen years
2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Past Lives, Martha Casanave's first book of photographs, clearly demonstrates her fertile eye and her widely ranging sensibility. The book's five sections--Portraits, Nudes, Narratives, An American in the Soviet Union and Out in the Cold: Leningrad in Winter--reveal strikingly different facets of a single photographic vision. Portraits finds people, often couples, straightforwardly posed but clearly comfortable in their own habitats. These familiar surroundings provide a rich context for the eloquence and individuality of the faces. Nudes, on the other hand, lets bodies speak for themselves more formalistically. Casanave has found a density of posture and backdrop, of figure and ground, that is highly expressive. Narratives moves into a mysterious world of moody drama, of shadowy presences, caught motion, half-glimpsed encounters. An American in the Soviet Union is a lively suite of tinted images, plunging right into the midst of life, but "colored" by a foreigner's heightened receptivity, Leningrad in Winter surprises us with an entirely unexpected glimpse of the atmosphere and spirit of another place. These chilly prospects, almost entirely unpeopled, were captured with a pinhole camera. Their consequent blur arrives in the eye like an already distant memory. Past Lives offers an unusually varied portfolio of this prize-winning photographer's work from the past fifteen years
Xenia by
A Dragomoshchenko(
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6 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1990 Sun & Moon Press published the first American translation of the brilliant Soviet poet Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Description. The book garnered a great deal of attention in the United States and led one critic, Marjorie Perloff, to ponder about the possibility of influence of contemporary Soviet poetry upon American writers
6 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1990 Sun & Moon Press published the first American translation of the brilliant Soviet poet Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Description. The book garnered a great deal of attention in the United States and led one critic, Marjorie Perloff, to ponder about the possibility of influence of contemporary Soviet poetry upon American writers
Tribunal by
Lyn Hejinian(
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1 edition published in 2019 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
1 edition published in 2019 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
Happily by
Lyn Hejinian(
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6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Writing is an aid to memory by
Lyn Hejinian(
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10 editions published between 1978 and 1983 in English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published between 1978 and 1983 in English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Endarkenment : selected poems by
A Dragomoshchenko(
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4 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Major collection by a contemporary Russian avant-garde master
4 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Major collection by a contemporary Russian avant-garde master
Situations, sings by
Jack Collom(
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Description by
A Dragomoshchenko(
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4 editions published in 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Watten, Barrett Author Editor
- Ashbery, John 1927-2017
- Silliman, Ronald 1946-
- Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
- Moore, Marianne 1887-1972
- Reddy, Srikanth 1973- Author
- Tuumba Press Publisher
- Siltanen, Elina Author
- Dragomoshchenko, A. (Arkadiĭ) Author
- Lehman, David 1948-
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Aesthetics American poetry American poetry--Women authors Antin, David Armantrout, Rae, Ashbery, John, Benson, Steve, Bernstein, Charles, Berrigan, Ted Brathwaite, Kamau, California--San Francisco Bay Area Casanave, Martha Commonwealth poetry (English) Digression (Rhetoric) in literature Dragomoshchenko, A.--(Arkadiĭ) English poetry English-speaking countries Experimental poetry, American Grief Harryman, Carla Hejinian, Lyn Howe, Susan Howe, Susan, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Language poetry Literary form Literature and history Mackey, Nathaniel, Mandel, Tom, Modernism (Literature) Moore, Marianne, Pearson, Ted Perelman, Bob Philip, Marlene Nourbese, Photography Photography, Artistic Poetics Poetry Poets, American Postmodernism (Literature) Robinson, Kit, Russia Russians Silliman, Ronald, Soviet Union United States Waldrop, Rosmarie Watten, Barrett Whitman, Walt, Women poets
