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Sustaining Air - The Life of Larry Eigner (Paperback)
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Sustaining Air - The Life of Larry Eigner (Paperback)
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics
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The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry Â
The poet Larry Eigner (1927–1996) was a key figure in New
American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School and
San Francisco Renaissance, and a major influence on the Language
poets. Eigner also had cerebral palsy as the result of an accident
at birth. It is fortuitous that the poet lived his life in two
locations vibrant in both poetics and disability activism. Except
for brief periods attending camp and school, he lived with his
parents in Swampscott, Massachusetts, until the age of 51. Later,
he moved to Berkeley, California, at the height of the disability
rights movement. In the 1950s, Eigner attended Camp Jened, which
later became famous in the film Crip Camp. Bartlett’s biography
covers every significant phase of Eigner’s life: his childhood
and young adulthood when he began typing poems with one finger on
the manual typewriter that was a bar mitzvah gift; his first
publications and the maturation of his poetic interests through
correspondence with poets of the era; and after his move to
Berkeley, the ever-expanding circle of friends, poets, caretakers,
and collaborators he established there. The result is a deeply
insightful account of an utterly distinctive voice whose influence
widens and deepens with each new generation that encounters him.
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