Lyn Hejinian
Comments & Themes
Topics for research and critical analysis:
- Analyze the rudiments of Lyn Hejinian's prose poems, especially attending to her discursive idea on the formal sentence.
- Consider the Lyn Hejinian's effects of rhythm that might lead to a contrast with systemic formalism.
- Study the manner how Hejinian's self and simplest acts draw on deep cultural commitments fostered by certain American contexts.
- Comment Lyn Hejinian's personal history as a textualist challenge.
- Explain Hejinian's speaking subject as a postmodern uncertainty.
- Exemplify issues of perception, imagination, and aesthetic freedom in Hejinian's poems.
- Contrast Hejinian's long poems in numbered sequences and their major themes.