Job title:
Spring 2011 ARC Fellow, Essayist, Translator, and Publisher
Bio/CV:
Lyn Hejinian was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.
Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian was a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. Her poetry is characterized by an unusual lyricism and descriptive engagement with the everyday. She authored many poetry collections, including Tribunal (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019), The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn Publishing, 2012), The Fatalist (Omnidawn Publishing, 2003), and her landmark work My Life(Burning Deck, 1980). A native Californian, she taught in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.