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Books by Lyn Hejinian
  | | The Unfollowing(1st Edition) by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Omnidawn ISBN-13: 978-1-63243-015-1, ISBN: 1-63243-015-0 "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 ribaldr ..." |
 | | Oxota(Updated) A Short Russian Novel by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2019 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7876-1, ISBN: 0-8195-7876-2 "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 fi ..." |
 | | The Book of a Thousand Eyes(1st Edition) by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2012 by Omnidawn ISBN-13: 978-1-890650-57-5, ISBN: 1-890650-57-9 "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 ta ..." |
 | | Situations, Sings (Adventures in Poetry) by Lyn Hejinian, Jack Collom Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2007 by Adventures In Poetry ISBN-13: 978-0-9761612-4-0, ISBN: 0-9761612-4-9 "A collection of twelve formally distinct poems collaboratively written by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. The two poets began working together in 1992, and over the years they have developed a repertoire of forms and procedures, all intended to extend the possibilities for invention, play, and the unfolding of unforeseeable meaning. Both poets embrace collaborative authorship as a means of challenging aesthetic preconceptions. In the proc ..." |
 | | Third Factory(1st Edition) (Russian Literature Series) by Lyn Hejinian, Viktor Shklovsky, Richard Sheldon, Виктор Шкловский, Richard Robert Sheldon, Viktor Borisovich Shklovskii Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2002 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-317-2, ISBN: 1-56478-317-0 "Like many of Shklovsky's works, Third Factory is not easily classified. In part it is a memoir of the three "Factories" that influenced his development as a human being and as a writer, yet the events depicted within the book are fictionalised and conveyed with the poetic verve and playfulness of form that have made Shklovsky a major figure in twentieth-century world literature. In addition to its fictional and biographical elements, Th ..." |
 | | The Fatalist(1st Edition) by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2003 by Omnidawn ISBN-13: 978-1-890650-12-4, ISBN: 1-890650-12-9 "A book-length, syntactically surprising poem divided into many sections, it is interspersed with delightful descriptions of daily experience with references to illustrious writers and thinkers of the past and their systems of philosophical inquiry. It offers humorous reflection upon our species' endless attempts to transmit insight regarding our human condition." |
 | | Writing Is an Aid to Memory (Sun & Moon Classics) by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1996 by Green Integer ISBN-13: 978-1-55713-271-0, ISBN: 1-55713-271-2 ""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." |
 | | The Best American Poetry 2004 Series Editor David Lehman by David Lehman, Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5757-2, ISBN: 0-7432-5757-X "The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. Guest editor Lyn Hejinian, acclaimed for her own innovative writing, has chosen seventy-five important new poems and contributed a provocative introductory essay. Through her selections, Hejinian has created an essential nexus -- a meeting place for readers to encounter an extraordinary range of poets. With illuminating co ..." |
 | | The Best American Poetry 2004 Series Editor David Lehman by Lyn Hejinian, David Lehman Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5737-4, ISBN: 0-7432-5737-5 "The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. In her provocative introduction, guest editor Lyn Hejinian, herself among the most acclaimed and innovative contemporary writers, expresses the need for this anthology. "Meaning in poetry," she writes, "is created by the linking together of poems to form the large, ancient, and ever new human undertaking of thinking togeth ..." |
 | | Three Lives(Updated) (Green Integer) by Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Green Integer ISBN-13: 978-1-892295-33-0, ISBN: 1-892295-33-4 "First published in 1909, the great American version of Flaubert's "Trois Contes" recounts the lives of three plain and humble women, two working as household servants and the third, a Black woman, involved in an unhappy love affair. But to express these revelatory fictions in this manner is to miss everything, for Stein's language of the first decade of the 20th century is still as fresh today as if her characters had just created the A ..." |
 | | My Life and My Life in the Nineties(Reprint) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2013 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7351-3, ISBN: 0-8195-7351-5 "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 ..." |
 | | Sight(1st Edition) by Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1999 by Edge Books ISBN-13: 978-1-890311-06-3, ISBN: 1-890311-06-5 "Poetry. A collaborative effort by two of today's most famous poets. Equal parts poetry and philosophy, Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino's collaboration is organized around the act and idea of seeing, written in the form of a literary dialogue. We were interested in a joint investigation into the workings of experience, writes Hejinian in the introduction, how experience happens, what it consists of, how the experiencing (percieving, fe ..." |
 | | My Life (Sun & Moon Classics) by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1987 by Sun & Moon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55713-024-2, ISBN: 1-55713-024-8 "classic autobiography in prose poems, a la Stein " |
 | | Hearing by Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino Softcover, 104 Pages, Published 2021 by Litmus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933959-47-4, ISBN: 1-933959-47-9 ""Hearing is the second in a series of collaborations by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino organized around each of the five senses. Their first collaboration in this series, Sight, was published by Edge Books in 1999." |
 | | A Guide to Poetics Journal Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998 by Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten 416 Pages, Published 2013 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7122-9, ISBN: 0-8195-7122-9 "It is perfectly legitimate, of course, for Smith and Bottoms to choose the poets they prefer for an anthology. ... It is disingenuous for them to pretend that their book created itself by means of a kind of natural selection while they stood back and watched “language discover its possibilities. ... 6:141–44. keywords: lyric poetry; genre; ideology; readings. links: Rae Armantrout, “Chains” (PJ 5), “On Pythagorean Silence” ... Wesl ..." |
 | | The Wide Road by Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2011 by Belladonna* ISBN-13: 978-0-9823387-4-2, ISBN: 0-9823387-4-0 "Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. What would have happened had Thelma and Louise not driven off the cliff but stayed on the road? In Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's picaresque novella, friendship lives on to follow eros through a polymorphic landscape where their fearless, inquisitive "we" encounters "hunger in two places at once." THE WIDE ROAD was collaboratively composed by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian between 1991 and 2010. The cov ..." |
 | | The Grand Piano Part 8 by Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten, Rae Armantrout, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Carla Harryman, Ted Pearson, Kit Robinson, Bob Perelman, Alan Bernheimer, Benson Steve Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by This Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9790198-7-6, ISBN: 0-9790198-7-7 "Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir. Part Eight in the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE GRAND PIANO: PART 8 continues to mark the events, movements and intersections among ten contributing 1970s Language poets. "THE GRAND PIANO is itself a veering off and an investigation and a playing or experimenting with the materials of language, history, textuality, and temporality, the personal and political, poetry and commun ..." |
 | | The Grand Piano Part 6 by Ron Silliman, Professor Barrett Watten, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, Bob Perelman, Carla Harryman, Ted Pearson, Steve Benson, Tom Mandel Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by This Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9790198-5-2, ISBN: 0-9790198-5-0 "Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. Number six in the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE GRAND PIANO (PART SIX) continues to mark the events, movements and intersections among ten contributing 1970's Language poets. The series takes its name from a Haight Street coffee shop at which the poets used to read, and is primarily concerned with reconstructing the period when the contributors were at the forefront of radical po ..." |
 | | The Grand Piano Part 2 by Professor Barrett Watten, Rae Armantrout, Ronald Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Pearson, Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, Tom Mandel, Carla Harryman, Bob Perelman Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2007 by This Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9790198-1-4, ISBN: 0-9790198-1-8 "Cultural Writing. Poetry. Memoir. THE GRAND PIANO is an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco. It takes its name from a coffee house at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976-79 the authors took part in a reading and performance series. The writing project was undertaken as an online collaboration, first via an interactive website and then through a listserv. THE GRAN ..." |
 | | My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Shark Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9664871-9-0, ISBN: 0-9664871-9-2 "Poetry. The continuation of the project begun in Hejinian's best-selling MY LIFE also available from SPD MY LIFE IN THE NINETIES provides important glimpses into related works such as HAPPILY, THE BEGINNER, and SLOWLY. Part prose poetry, part autobiography, and part radical modernist experiment, MY LIFE IN THE NINETIES is a masterpiece of recent writing on identity, language, and politics."" |
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