For those who may be astonished, I now have an online video (actually, recording with Powerpoint) of my lecture on Walter Benjamin and Lyn Hejinian: *A Poetics of Refunctioning*. The print version of the essay is also in the works. Until then-- savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?i...
October 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM
For those who may be astonished, I now have an online video (actually, recording with Powerpoint) of my lecture on Walter Benjamin and Lyn Hejinian: *A Poetics of Refunctioning*. The print version of the essay is also in the works. Until then-- savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?i...
Lyn Hejinian never won the Nobel but her junior Anne Carson did for work praised in the same terms. Carson glues her components with more sentiment and syrup, and this is liked for personality and lyricism. But for me of pop ballads or Schubert, never Boulez or as full-on and orchestral as Mahler
October 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Lyn Hejinian never won the Nobel but her junior Anne Carson did for work praised in the same terms. Carson glues her components with more sentiment and syrup, and this is liked for personality and lyricism. But for me of pop ballads or Schubert, never Boulez or as full-on and orchestral as Mahler
#poetry ✨️✨️
A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding
The gap left by things which have already happened
Leaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to do
But that. Dreams are like ghosts achieving ghosts’ perennial goal
Of revoking the sensation of repose.
~ Lyn Hejinian
A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding
The gap left by things which have already happened
Leaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to do
But that. Dreams are like ghosts achieving ghosts’ perennial goal
Of revoking the sensation of repose.
~ Lyn Hejinian
October 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
#poetry ✨️✨️
A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding
The gap left by things which have already happened
Leaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to do
But that. Dreams are like ghosts achieving ghosts’ perennial goal
Of revoking the sensation of repose.
~ Lyn Hejinian
A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding
The gap left by things which have already happened
Leaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to do
But that. Dreams are like ghosts achieving ghosts’ perennial goal
Of revoking the sensation of repose.
~ Lyn Hejinian
Inspired by 'The composition of the cell' by Lyn Hejinian, the program is finding its language as in its own environment. Tracking daily observations becomes an act of scientific and poetic precision.
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
September 21, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Inspired by 'The composition of the cell' by Lyn Hejinian, the program is finding its language as in its own environment. Tracking daily observations becomes an act of scientific and poetic precision.
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
Inspired by 'The composition of the cell' by Lyn Hejinian, the program is finding its language as in its own environment. Tracking daily observations becomes an act of scientific and poetic precision.
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
September 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Inspired by 'The composition of the cell' by Lyn Hejinian, the program is finding its language as in its own environment. Tracking daily observations becomes an act of scientific and poetic precision.
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
Inspired by 'The composition of the cell' by Lyn Hejinian, the program is finding its language as in its own environment. Tracking daily observations becomes an act of scientific and poetic precision.
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
September 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Inspired by 'The composition of the cell' by Lyn Hejinian, the program is finding its language as in its own environment. Tracking daily observations becomes an act of scientific and poetic precision.
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
3.4 Reality moves around making objects appear as if they belong where they
are.
4.2 Exactly!
Yeah the excerpt you posted on Substack.
Silliman has influenced me too (along with Hejinian, Armantrout, Bernstein, et al). And that whole tradition
(or anti-tradition) that maybe begins with Baudelaire, but could be traced back further, and leads through surrealism to the present.
Silliman has influenced me too (along with Hejinian, Armantrout, Bernstein, et al). And that whole tradition
(or anti-tradition) that maybe begins with Baudelaire, but could be traced back further, and leads through surrealism to the present.
August 25, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Yeah the excerpt you posted on Substack.
Silliman has influenced me too (along with Hejinian, Armantrout, Bernstein, et al). And that whole tradition
(or anti-tradition) that maybe begins with Baudelaire, but could be traced back further, and leads through surrealism to the present.
Silliman has influenced me too (along with Hejinian, Armantrout, Bernstein, et al). And that whole tradition
(or anti-tradition) that maybe begins with Baudelaire, but could be traced back further, and leads through surrealism to the present.
August 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
thank you lyn hejinian for making sure i did not return home entirely empty handed today 🙏
💙📚
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August 15, 2026 at 9:25 PM
thank you lyn hejinian for making sure i did not return home entirely empty handed today 🙏
💙📚
💙📚
ooooh that line about the ear makes me think of this!
August 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
ooooh that line about the ear makes me think of this!
Lyn Hejinian was so important for my breaking beyond the early days of learning poetry to try to do more, to expand my notion of what’s possible. Thinking of her with gratitude today. RIP.
February 24, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Lyn Hejinian was so important for my breaking beyond the early days of learning poetry to try to do more, to expand my notion of what’s possible. Thinking of her with gratitude today. RIP.
Approximately five women authors I have read more than one book by
Toni Morrison
Willa Cather
Elena Ferante (duh)
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
Paula Rabinowitz
bell hooks
Gertrude Stein
Susan Sontag
Anna Kornbluh
Alice Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary Karr
Lyn Hejinian
Naomi Klein
Toni Morrison
Willa Cather
Elena Ferante (duh)
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
Paula Rabinowitz
bell hooks
Gertrude Stein
Susan Sontag
Anna Kornbluh
Alice Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary Karr
Lyn Hejinian
Naomi Klein
Louise Erdrich
Willa Cather
Edith Wharton
Eudora Welty
Carson McCullers
Leslie Marmon Silko
Susan Power
LeAnne Howe
Cherie Dimaline
Diane Glancy
Toni Morrison
Anne Rice
Melissa Febos
Kristen Arnett
Jesmyn Ward
I could keep going lol.
Willa Cather
Edith Wharton
Eudora Welty
Carson McCullers
Leslie Marmon Silko
Susan Power
LeAnne Howe
Cherie Dimaline
Diane Glancy
Toni Morrison
Anne Rice
Melissa Febos
Kristen Arnett
Jesmyn Ward
I could keep going lol.
This is an interesting exercise.
Here's my list:
Barbara Kingsolver (7)
Lori Lansens (4)
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social (3)
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social (6)
@margaretatwood.bsky.social (11)
Here's my list:
Barbara Kingsolver (7)
Lori Lansens (4)
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social (3)
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social (6)
@margaretatwood.bsky.social (11)
May 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Approximately five women authors I have read more than one book by
Toni Morrison
Willa Cather
Elena Ferante (duh)
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
Paula Rabinowitz
bell hooks
Gertrude Stein
Susan Sontag
Anna Kornbluh
Alice Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary Karr
Lyn Hejinian
Naomi Klein
Toni Morrison
Willa Cather
Elena Ferante (duh)
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
Paula Rabinowitz
bell hooks
Gertrude Stein
Susan Sontag
Anna Kornbluh
Alice Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary Karr
Lyn Hejinian
Naomi Klein
Reading Lyn Hejinian as an undergrad was one of the things that set me on my particular (peculiar?) path
February 24, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Reading Lyn Hejinian as an undergrad was one of the things that set me on my particular (peculiar?) path
Lyn Hejinian (1941-2024), from Lola the Interpreter, to be published by Wesleyan University Press in October of 2025.
from Lola the Interpreter - The Paris Review
“Animated by sudden, worldbound, outfacing feelings, Lola laughs with both hands in the air: here’s to the raptures of proximity!”
www.theparisreview.org
April 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Lyn Hejinian (1941-2024), from Lola the Interpreter, to be published by Wesleyan University Press in October of 2025.
Lyn Hejinian was and will remain a monumental writer. RIP.
February 24, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Lyn Hejinian was and will remain a monumental writer. RIP.
Lyn Hejinian, my heart
February 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Lyn Hejinian, my heart
Labyrinth Of The Flower
© Surazeus
2024 03 09
Orpheus visits Lyn Hejinian at her home on Mount Helicon.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/03/laby...
© Surazeus
2024 03 09
Orpheus visits Lyn Hejinian at her home on Mount Helicon.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/03/laby...
Labyrinth Of The Flower
Labyrinth Of The Flower © Surazeus 2024 03 09 Awake to language of the dreamless brain in the thousand eyes of Scheherazade, I dance ar...
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March 9, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Labyrinth Of The Flower
© Surazeus
2024 03 09
Orpheus visits Lyn Hejinian at her home on Mount Helicon.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/03/laby...
© Surazeus
2024 03 09
Orpheus visits Lyn Hejinian at her home on Mount Helicon.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/03/laby...
Whisper Of My Bone
© Surazeus
2024 02 24
Orpheus sings eulegy for the dream witch Lyn Hejinian.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/02/whis...
© Surazeus
2024 02 24
Orpheus sings eulegy for the dream witch Lyn Hejinian.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/02/whis...
Whisper Of My Bone
Whisper Of My Bone © Surazeus 2024 02 24 To circumambulate mountains of words I hang my figurehead on door of thought to discuss psycho...
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February 24, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Whisper Of My Bone
© Surazeus
2024 02 24
Orpheus sings eulegy for the dream witch Lyn Hejinian.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/02/whis...
© Surazeus
2024 02 24
Orpheus sings eulegy for the dream witch Lyn Hejinian.
surazeus.blogspot.com/2024/02/whis...
A reading for our most cherished Lyn across all the languages this Saturday, on what would've been her 82nd birthday. I'd say far more but these tidbit, "pitch" formats are particularly unwelcoming for writers the likes of me—just come & hear her work as polyphony! www.facebook.com/events/13981...
THE OBVIOUS ANALOGY IS WITH MUSIC: A Reading for Lyn Hejinian
Event by Ivan Sokolov on Saturday, May 17 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A reading for our most cherished Lyn across all the languages this Saturday, on what would've been her 82nd birthday. I'd say far more but these tidbit, "pitch" formats are particularly unwelcoming for writers the likes of me—just come & hear her work as polyphony! www.facebook.com/events/13981...
Human history is that of the zombies we've become. -Lyn Hejinian, Lola the Interpreter
February 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Human history is that of the zombies we've become. -Lyn Hejinian, Lola the Interpreter