Lyn Hejinian, Author . Granary Books $15.95 (218p) ISBN 978-1-887123-37-2
"I thought I could, as it were, follow a poem, that kept itself apart from me/ And from itself/ A short lyric of shifts/ A page or two at most/ A poem of metamorphoses, a writing in lost contexts/ I would write a line or two/ No more/ And go...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author . Tuumba $10 (43p) ISBN 978-1-931157-02-5
If Happily—Hejinian's previous offering from what appears to be a series of short book-length works—can be considered a poem of the day, framing experience as a linked series of charged, ephemeral pleasures, then Slowly
is a poem of
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Lyn Hejinian, Author . Omnidawn $12.95 (84p) ISBN 978-1-890650-12-4
Readers have perhaps grown used to American poets writing ongoing, complex, reference and symbol-laden poems as if talking to themselves, making the reader a witness to the activity of a dynamic thinker's mind. Pound and Stevens, in their very...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author . Omnidawn $15.95 (148p) ISBN 978-1-890650-34-6
This pair of new long works from the California-based experimental poetry master (The Fatalist
) makes a fine introduction to her current powers. Hejinian—admired in avant-garde circles since the 1970s—combines epistemological...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author Post Apollo Press $7 (39p) ISBN 978-0-942996-38-8
This small book-length poem by Hejinian (My Life; The Cold of Poetry; etc.) presents a loosely linked series of everyday, abstracted pleasures where time is tactile yet immeasurable; when recognized, though, it is a revelation: ""Now is a blinding...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author Sun and Moon Press $12.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-55713-063-1
Hejinian's (The Cell) poems are philosophical reveries, matter-of-fact in their occasions and wryly meditative in tone. Reading her, we watch thoughts in formation as she rummages around in her mind to see what odds and ends she can turn up. Of...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author University of California Press $50 (447p) ISBN 978-0-520-21699-0
Hejinian's My Life, an urtext of language poetry, has found its way onto countless contemporary poetry and women's studies syllabi, as well as the bookshelves of poets and other readers, for the complex transparency of its thought and the beauty of...
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Lyn Hejinian. Omnidawn (IPG, dist.), $24.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-890650-57-5
Ample, enticing, slippery, sometimes funny, and all too easily divided into its 300-odd independent segments, the latest from the Berkeley-based, much-honored experimental poet (Saga/Circus) investigates the realms of sleep and dreams. “It’s not...
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Lyn Hejinian. Omnidawn (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-63243-015-1
Transfixing and restless, Hejinian’s book-length series of elegies takes its title from its central formal constraint: each line is a non sequitur from the preceding one. The mere fact of proximity of course invites a sense of relation, a...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author, Emilie Clark, Joint Author Granary Books $19.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-887123-46-4
After publishing the magnificent, limited edition The Traveler and the Hill, and the Hill in 1998, Granary Books is issuing the latest collaboration between poet Lyn Hejinian (who recently was awarded the $35,000 Merrill Fellowship from the...
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Lyn Hejinian, Author, Lyne Hejinian, Author Sun and Moon Press $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55713-021-1
Hejinian ( My Life ), one of the foremost proponents of Language poetry, here presents a dated sequence (October 1986 through January 1989). The distinctly female narrator is looking around her, recording daily events and imaginings, often with...
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Ron Silliman, Author, Lyn Hejinian, Author, Barrett Watten, Author This Press $12.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-9790198-0-7
This short, multi-author work is the first of a projected ten in a series chronicling the West Coast wing of the language poetry movement, which was at its most cohesive from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s. The books are named for a San...
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Lyn Hejinian. Belladonna, $18 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-9988439-0-2
The latest cross-genre offering from Hejinian (The Unfollowing) operates as a repetitive and self-aware daily index of the mundane amid the mid-2000s financial crisis, “whereby capital extended its efforts at privatization.” The project consists of...
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Lyn Hejinian. Wesleyan Univ, $18.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7876-1
The 12th collection from poet, essayist, and translator Hejinian (The Book of a Thousand Eyes) offers a “short Russian novel” modeled after Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. A nearly 4,000-line epic composed of 271 separate 14-line poems across eight books,...
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Lyn Hejinian. Omnidawn, $17.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-63243-066-3
“I am a human in the absence of others of a yet better red,” begins the latest from Hejinian (The Book of a Thousand Eyes). Organized as a three-part trial, the book articulates a timely political consciousness: one of war, fascism, and a “not...
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Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino. Litmus, $20 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-933959-47-4
The intriguing second book in a series of collaborations by Hejinian and Scalapino (1944 – 2010), organized around each of the five senses (after 1999’s Sight), is more interested in the figurative powers of hearing than the sensory ones. In her...
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