Full Description
Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with five poems written from 1963 to 1965, The Proposition collects Hejinian's previously uncollected works from 1963-1983 in one unique volume. The individual early works curated in this volume broaden the existing published collections of Hejinian's works, showing Hejinian's play with form, visual language, and linguistic experiment before the poet's move to project orientated writing practices. With a new Preface by Lyn Hejinian, and five essays by prominent critics in the field, the volume offers both a new collection of Hejinian's poetry and an important scholarly resource for students, scholars, and readers of contemporary avant-garde writing more widely.
Contents
Preface to the Proposition (by Lyn Hejinian)
The Proposition: Uncollected Poems 1963-1983
1963-1965
The Grreat Adventure (1969-1970)
A Month Without Days (1975)
The Inclusions: 1974-1975
Chronic Texts (1977)
1977-1979
1979-1981
1981-1982
1983
Critical Essays
Charles Altieri, The Proposition as Preamble: Lyn Hejinian's Conative Realism
Lytle Shaw, Early Hejinian
Emily Critchley, Lyn Hejinian's Faustienne beings-with
Jacob Edmond, Crossing Improvised Boundaries: Personhood, Poetry, Estrangement
Jessica Fisher, Lyn Hejinian's 'Allegorical Activism'
Chronology of Works
List of Contributors
Bibliography
