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PublisherEdinburgh University Press

ISBN-101399526626

ISBN-139781399526623

eBay Product ID (ePID)21070937273

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Book TitleLyn Hejinian, the Proposition : Uncollected Early Poems 1963-1983

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicWomen Authors, American / General, Poetry

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections

AuthorLyn Hejinian

Book SeriesEdinburgh Foundations in Avantgarde Writing Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"I pause on the upswing of the thought" Lyn Hejinian writes in her 1966 poem "The Guermantes Way", and what we experience over and over, within the air-born pause, is her notation of an abundant and openly curious joy. Hejinian's vitalism was not only linguistic, as her long participation in the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement in American poetry might suggest, but committedly conceptual. She brought a gloriously supple difference to the concept: in her work, thinking radiates delight and the poem is a unit of wonder poised in critical tension with its social and material environment. From the elegantly spare compositions of her 20s, which show an Objectivist-inflected ear for sound intricacy and internal rhyme held aloft by the play of pun and riddle, we are led to the prosier but still-airy texts of the early 80s, which prefigure the turn to the open ended, looping narration of the everyday achieved in her masterful book My Life . The poems collected in this volume, as well as her exhilarating preface (a crucial defence of poetry as revolutionary practise and radical hope), are shimmering evidence of Hejinian's lifelong enquiry into the life of the mind as a form of living together in language.

Dewey Decimal811.54

Table Of ContentPreface to the Proposition (by Lyn Hejinian) The Proposition: Uncollected Poems 1963-1983 1963 - 1965 The Grreat Adventure (1969 - 1970) A Month Without Days (1975) The Inclusions: 1974 - 1975 Chronic Texts (1977) 1977 - 1979 1979 - 1981 1981 - 1982 1983 Critical Essays Charles Altieri, The Proposition as Preamble: Lyn Hejinian's Conative Realism Lytle Shaw, Early Hejinian Emily Critchley, Lyn Hejinian's Faustienne beings-with Jacob Edmond, Crossing Improvised Boundaries: Personhood, Poetry, Estrangement Jessica Fisher, Lyn Hejinian's 'Allegorical Activism' Chronology of Works List of Contributors Bibliography

SynopsisLyn 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 1963-1983 in one unique volume. The individual early works curated in this volume broaden the existing published collections of Hejinian's works, showing Hejinian's play with form, visual language, and linguistic experiment before the poet's move to project orientated writing practices. With a new Preface by Lyn Hejinian, and five essays by prominent critics in the field, the volume offers both a new collection of Hejinian's poetry and an important scholarly resource for students, scholars, and readers of contemporary avant-garde writing more widely.

LC Classification NumberPS3558.E4735A6 2024