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Title: My Life (Green Integer Books, 67) by Lyn Hejinian ISBN: 1-931243-33-6 Publisher: Green Integer Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: textures woven in an experimental pattern
Comment: One can't talk about this book without making mention of its remarkable structure and history: it was intially written when Ms. Hejinian was thirty-seven, and it consisted of thirty-seven poems, each one containing impressions drawn from the corresponding year of her life. Each of these poems was composed of thirty-seven sentences, as well.
Eight years later, when Ms. Hejinian was forty-five, she revised My Life, adding eight new poems (to bring the total up to forty-five) and inserting eight new sentences into each of the previous poems, adding a new layer of understanding and complexity to the earlier work and questioning the idea that a piece of writing (or the evolution of the self) can ever be "finished."
Additionally, the details that she focuses on in these poems and the way these details are ordered comprise a quiet subversion of traditional biographical structure. Ms. Hejinian avoids the normal biographical trajectories-- "here's how I became a success" or "here are the most important events in my life" -- instead she focuses on minutae like the pattern of tiles in a floor. She also resists the impulse to explain whether these details influenced her later self or even why they are important at all, leaving much up to the reader to determine.
This all contributes to making this a wonderful, astonishing, surprising book; a new way of investigating the experience of being human.
Rating: 5
Summary: Plucking away at the Postmodern
Comment: If you want prose and postmodern poetry which hasn't lost the integrity and beauty of image, then bring your intellectual shovel and dig in. Don't let postmodernism ruffle your feathers until you've let dutch rub you.
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Title: Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass ISBN: 1564782123 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson ISBN: 0375708421 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Writing Is an Aid to Memory (Sun & Moon Classics, No 141) by Lyn Hejinian ISBN: 1557132712 Publisher: Sun & Moon Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian ISBN: 0520217004 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Alcools: Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Donald Revell ISBN: 0819512281 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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