"Hejinian's essays are a keystone of postwar North American
poetics. They are also a great pleasure to read, for Hejinian is an
extraordinarily resonant stylist whose work combines the lushness
of her poetry with an engaging aesthetic and philosophical
inventiveness. This is writing that avoids closure in the pursuit
of unfolding, multifaceted, restive thought. "The Language of
Inquiry's meditations on the possibilities of poetry create an
experience in which each reader is at the center. To engage with
this work is to be put in touch with oneself as if anew."--Charles
Bernstein, author of "My Way: Speeches and Poems
"From 1975, when she wrote 'A Thought Is the Bride of What
Thinking' -- the first 'essay' in this collection -- Lyn Hejinian
has always regarded poetry and poetics as intimately interwoven:
her poetry has sometimes been highly theoretical even as her
theoretical and critical peices are nothing if not poetic. "The
Language of Inquiry, the first collection of Hejinian's essays,
lectures, introductions, and meditations, constitutes, in the words
of Gertrude Stein, about whom she has written so brilliantly,
Hejinian's own 'composition as explanation, ' culminating in her
new long Steinian poem, aptly called 'Happily.' This is an exciting
and deeply moving book."--Marjorie Perloff, author of
"Wittgenstein's Ladder
"'Intelligence is romantic.' These essays, prefaces, lectures,
aphorisms, portraits, and meditations, by one of America's most
innovative poets, passionately explore, as did the critical
writings of Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens,
the philosophical foundations of contemporary American culture.
[For Hejinian, the process of 'theorizing is . .. a manner of
vulnerable, inquisitive, worldly living . . . very closely bound to
the poetic process.'] "The Language of Inquiry brilliantly
demonstrates the myriad, paradoxical ways in which philosophy and
poetry are indivisible and distinct." --Susan Howe
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