Hejinian, Lyn

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Hejinian, Lyn
Date of birth
1941-05-17
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 44325651
Wikidata: Q6708326
Library of congress: n 82071099
HAI10: 000132729
Sources of Information
  • Gesualdo, 1978:t.p. (Lyn Hejinian)
  • Lyn Hejinian, died Feburary 24, 2024 at her home in Berkeley, California ( (New York Times, viewed November 25, 2024) )
  • Positions of the sun, 2018:ECIP t.p. (Lyn Hejinian) data view (Poet, essayist, teacher, and translator. Her most recent book is The Unfollowing (Omnidawn Books, 2016). Belladonna will bring out her prose work, Positions of the Sun, in 2017. Other volumes include The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn Books, 2012) and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman (Belladonna, 2010). In fall 2013 Wesleyan republished her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that includes her related work, My Life in the Nineties. Wesleyan is also the publisher of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive, both co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. She is currently the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and the co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is part of the UC Berkeley Humanities Activism coalition, formed immediately after November 8, 2016)
  • Writing is an aid to memory, c1978:t.p. (Lyn Hejinian) colophon (b. 1941 in San Francisco)
  • Her Gesualdo, 1978:t.p. (Lyn Hejinian)
  • Her Writing is an aid to memory, c1978:t.p. (Lyn Hejinian) colophon (b. 1941 in San Francisco)
  • The fatalist, 2003:CIP t.p. (Lyn Hejinian) data view (b. May 17, 1941)