The Beginner

Hejinian, Lynn

ISBN 10: 1931157030 / ISBN 13: 9781931157032

Published by Tuumba, [Berkeley, CA?], 2002

About this Item

Fine -- illus. wraps. 42 pp. One of 1500 copies. an excellent copy.

Seller Inventory # 010968

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Beginner
• Publisher: Tuumba, [Berkeley, CA?]
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931157030
• ISBN 13: 9781931157032
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Avant-garde Literature
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Poetry. Across several decades, Lyn Hejinian has been constructing an exemplary and profoundly influential body of exploratory work, work of a discrepant lucidity that undermines commonplace assumptions of the permissible and the possible. Her poetry and her prose, as well as her frequent artistic collaborations, probe with incisive wit and formal invention fundamental questions of subjectivity and community, content and communication, gender and expressivity. THE BEGINNER was originally published in a limited edition in 2001 by Spectacular Books, and is now being reprinted by Tuumba Press. "I'm beginning, and thinking that I think myself launched into something, but the actual beginning has occurred long before and as a result the thought that "I'm beginning" is not a beginning but a pause, a phrase, though one incorporated into a beginning (the beginning concealed around it)."

About the Author

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her groundbreaking book of poetry, MY LIFE, published by Sun & Moon/Green Integer, has had five reprintings from 1980-2002. Her most recent books include A BORDER COMEDY (Granary Books, 2001), SLOWLY and THE BEGINNER (both published by Tuumba Press, 2002), and THE FATALIST (Omnidawn, 2003). The University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry in 2000. In the spring of 2007, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.