In this Book
- Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: University of New Mexico Press
- Series: Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
Larry Eigner (1927–1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School. While his writing has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, Eigner’s work has had a significant influence on generations of poets as he was at the center of the development of a postmodern poetics. The essays in this collection examine the breadth of Eigner’s interests and influence, considering issues pertaining to ecopoetics, race and ethnicity, disability, technology, media, soundscapes, phenomenology, and popular culture.
This book promises to be a foundational text for Eigner studies as well as an important addition to critical work about twentieth-century poetry and poetics. Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner is a valuable contribution to scholars in the field and to academics researching the intersection of disability studies and poetics.
Larry Eigner (1927–1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School. While his writing has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, Eigner’s work has had a significant influence on generations of poets as he was at the center of the development of a postmodern poetics. The essays in this collection examine the breadth of Eigner’s interests and influence, considering issues pertaining to ecopoetics, race and ethnicity, disability, technology, media, soundscapes, phenomenology, and popular culture.
This book promises to be a foundational text for Eigner studies as well as an important addition to critical work about twentieth-century poetry and poetics. Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner is a valuable contribution to scholars in the field and to academics researching the intersection of disability studies and poetics.
Table of Contents
- Half title
- pp. i-ii
- Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph
- pp. iv-viii
- Table of Contents
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Part 1. Place, Predecessors, and Projective Verse
- Part 2. Space and Time, Sight and Sound
- Chapter 6. Larry Eigner's Archives in Flight
- pp. 143-170
- Part 3. Selected Letters: 1953-1992
- A Note on Transcriptions
- p. 219
- LE to Robert Creeley 08/29/53
- pp. 220-223
- LE to Paul Blackburn 05/06/54
- pp. 224-226
- LE to Janet Eigner 07/02/63-07/07/63
- pp. 227-235
- LE to Denise Levertov 10/15/63-10/18/63
- pp. 236-244
- LE to Robert Duncan 12/29/69-01/01/70
- pp. 245-250
- LE to Jackson Mac Low 03/31/70
- pp. 251-253
- LE to Ron Silliman 10/21/72
- pp. 254-256
- LE to George Butterick 06/04/74-06/09/74
- pp. 257-264
- LE to Joseph Eigner Family 02/27/75-03/01/75
- pp. 265-267
- LE to Arthur MacFarland 01/07/80
- pp. 268-270
- LE to Clayton Eshleman 05/21/82
- pp. 271-273
- LE to Ruth Polansky Bloom 08/03/92-08/05/92
- pp. 276-278
- Works Cited
- pp. 279-288
- List of Contributors
- pp. 289-290