The Language of Inquiry

by Hejinian, Lyn

• ISBN13: 9780520217003
• ISBN10: 0520217004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A lucid, extended meditation on matters of poetry, language, and consciousness by an important American poet. Hejinian, like Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein among Language poets (Jorie Graham & John Ashbery more generally), is a major figure. Her book MY LIFE is already an American classic (Sun & Moon Press; has sold 11,000 copies since 1987).

Author Biography

Lyn Hejinian is a poet and the author of Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1996), The Cold of Poetry, The Cell, and My Life, among other books. She has taught at several universities and colleges and was the 1993 Roberta Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking	7	(15)
Preface to Writing Is an Aid to Memory	22	(3)
If written Is Writing	25	(5)
Who Is Speaking?	30	(20)
The Rejection of Closure	50	(9)
Language and ``Paradise''	59	(24)
Two Stein Talks	83	(48)
Line	131	(4)
Strangeness	135	(26)
Materials (for Dubravka Djuric)	161	(16)
Comments for Manuel Brito	177	(22)
The Person and Description	199	(10)
The Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem	209	(23)
La Faustienne	232	(36)
Three Lives	268	(28)
Forms in Alterity: On Translation	296	(22)
Barbarism	318	(19)
Reason	337	(18)
A Common Sense	355	(28)
Happily	383	(24)
Works Cited	407	(14)
Acknowledgment of Permissions	421	(2)
Index	423