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I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

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People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

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The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

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The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

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Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian

Born: May 17, 1941
Died: February 24, 2024 (aged 82)
Bio: Lyn Hejinian was an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She was often associated with the Language poets and was well known for her landmark work My Life, as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry.
Known for:
  1. The language of inquiry (2000)
  2. The Book of a Thousand Eyes (2012)
  3. The fatalist (2003)
  4. My life (1980)
  5. Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1978)

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