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This work brings together 20 essays written by the contemporary American poet, Lyn Hejinian. Central to these essays are the themes of time, knowledge, consciousness and perception, and the subject...
This work brings together 20 essays written by the contemporary American poet, Lyn Hejinian. Central to these essays are the themes of time, knowledge, consciousness and perception, and the subjects include Sir Francis Bacon and Martin Heidegger.
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- Creator
- Lyn Hejinian
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520216990, 0585389861, 9781597347006, 0520922271, 9780520217003, 9780520922273, 9781282758742, 9786612758744, 9780585389868, 1597347000, 0520217004, 1282758748, 0520216997
- OCLC
- ocm43864298, ocn475927283, ocm49570122
- Includes bibliography (pages 407-420) and index.
- A thought is the bride of what thinking -- Preface to Writing is an aid to memory -- 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