• 20th- and 21st-Century American
• African American
• Creative Writing
• Poetry



	Title	Fields
	Saga / Circus Saga / Circus, by the esteemed poet Lyn Hejinian, brings us two distinctly different long poems in which the tropes of narrative and lyric—their feints and demands—stake claims amongst the actual characters presented. In this playful yet penetrating pair of poems, it is the character of Lyn Hejinian's thought meeting our character of thought that is one of the most exciting....	Poetry
	The Wide Road Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. What would have happened had Thelma and Louise not driven off the cliff but stayed on the road? In Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's picaresque novella, friendship lives on to follow eros through a polymorphic landscape where their fearless, inquisitive "we" encounters "hunger in two places at once." THE WIDE ROAD was collaboratively compose....	Narrative & the Novel
	My Life and My Life in the Nineties Lyn Hejinian's My Life is one of the foundational texts of Language Poetry.  First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the postmodern canon.  This Wesleyan edition includes the 45-part prose poem sequence along with a closely related ten-part work titled My Life in the Nineties. ....	Poetry
	A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998 Between 1982 and 1998, Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues contributed to a surge of interest in the practice of poetics.  A Guide to Poetics Journal presents the major conversations and debates from the journal, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. ....	Poetry

poetry:Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books, 2008)Situations, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008)The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004)My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003)The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books, 2003)Slowly (Tuumba Press, 2002)A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press, 2000)Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999)Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures, 1991)My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987) volumes of critical prose:The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000)Leningrad, written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House, 1991) translations:Description, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990)Xenia, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994) 

Professor Hejinian also works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics.

Fall, 2012

143B/1

Verse

Poetry Creative Writing Workshops

Fall, 2011

190/1	Research Seminar: The Rejection of Closure: Slow Readings	Research Seminars
243B/1	Poetry Writing Workshop	Creative Writing Workshops