meanwhile, is crowded with the doings of human life, at least for humans, And it is thick with contingencies and chance occurrences, but also with the overlooked, misunderstood, maltreated, Positions is, I hope, about political activism and its aesthetic corollary in intellectual and everyday life, which I continue to value as interrelated and reciprocallyinforming spheres.
" What we do every day but to read, live think, talk with others and with ourselves, We read everything, from books to signs to gestures to the uncertainties of the market and the rules that use them to impose austerity as a form of living, of which
we talked while living with and among others.
Lyn Hejinians Positions of the Sun maintains that conversation with the quotidian in which many things are trivial, but from which triviality the reality of our lives is made, express and spend.
These essays are intellectually provoking in the sense that maintain a dialogue within itself, similar to the dialogue that happens in us.
Uncertainties is more abundant that what one may think, two thumbs up. if youre a fan of joanne kyger, you might enjoy thismaybe noti am and did, Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. POSITIONS OF THE SUN is a sometimes melancholy, sometimes militant crossgenre experiment, combining elements of largely nonnarrative fiction, with those of local journalism, and of cultural and literary criticism.
Its twentysix interlocking essays with characters plus a Coda explore the mids financial crisis, the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it, through the movements and daily lives of a wideranging cast of characters located in the Bay Area.
In POSITIONS, Hejinian plays the bricoleur, bringing together whatever's needed in her approach to the subject, whether it's the paratactic tactics of poetry, scholarship's critical patchwork, or characters set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative.
POSITIONS OF THE SUN is the second work in Belladonna's Germinal Texts Series, which seeks to trace feminist avantgarde histories and the poetic lineages they produce.
Lyn Hejinian born May,is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher, She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life Sun Moon,, original version Burning Deck,, as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry University of California Press,.
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