MY LIFE & MY LIFE IN THE NINETIES

MY LIFE & MY LIFE IN THE NINETIESFrom the press: New edition of one of the founding works of Language writing 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

but also translation and interpretation

From the press: In the late 1980s

Woebegone struggles in being both the ghost of dead Brix and a real cat herself

“Take Care of Me Forever” tragically lambasts the medical profession as a ship of fools afloat in loneliness and narcissism

a work that probes first (and lost) causes

The Frog in the Well is the charming tale of a brave frog who beats his fears and explores the world

Written from the heart

The frailty of bodies

song and diaristic observations

but also a way of looking afresh at the social roles

Susan Daitch

the three texts connect at various points inside the body of the author - in blood