ABSTRACT

Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of the avant-gardeLanguage poets, a group as well known for generating innovative poetics and political philosophy as for creating highly experimental and challenging poetry. At once intellectually rigorous and personally engaging, Hejinian's texts are touchstones of postmodern American poetry. A large part of her influence is due to the success of My Life (1980, 1987), an ongoing prose-like poetic project whose crossover appeal as an "autobiography" has won her consistent attention from the academic establishment.