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The Language of Inquiry
Lyn Hejinian
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Description for The Language of Inquiry
paperback. A collection of essays with the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Num Pages: 447 pages, 3 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 516.
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life , a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, ... Read more
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life , a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
447
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520217003
SKU
9780520217003
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About Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is a poet and the author of Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1996), The Cold of Poetry (1994), The Cell (1992), and My Life (1987), 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.
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