The unfollowing / Lyn Hejinian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hejinian, Lyn, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Omnidawn Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry are not easily separated in the play of human emotions. And they are all the proper, anarchic medium for staying alive.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781632430151

1632430150

OCLC:

923650864

Publisher Number:

99967790624