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.