Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-420) and index.
Contents
A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking -- If Written Is Writing -- Who Is Speaking? -- The Rejection of Closure -- Language and "Paradise" -- Two Stein Talks -- Line -- Strangeness -- Materials (for Dubravka Djuric) -- Comments for Manuel Brito -- The Person and Description -- The Quest for Knowledge in the Western Poem -- La Faustienne -- Three Lives -- Forms in Alterity: On Translation -- Barbarism -- Reason -- A Common Sense -- Happily.
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Summary
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.