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POETRY
182 Pages, 8.5 x 11
Formats: Cloth
Cloth, $40.00 (CA $27.00) (US $40.00)
Publication Date: October 1989
ISBN 9780937804346
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Oct 1989)
During his lifetime, Eigner wrote dozens of books and published poems in more than 100 magazines and collections. Ron Silliman dedicated the 1986 anthology of Language poetry, In the American Tree, to Eigner. In its introduction, Silliman identifies Eigner as a poet who has "transcended the problematic constraints" of Olson's speech-based projectivist poetics. Eigner has himself pointed out that his poetry originates in 'thinking' rather than speech, a phrase linking him conceptually to Language writing.
Laurence Joel Eigner (August 7, 1927 – February 3, 1996), also known as Larry Eigner, was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School. Eigner is associated with the Black Mountain poets and was influential among Language writers. Highlighting Eigner's influence on the Language School of poetry, his work often appeared in the journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and was featured on the front page of its inaugural issue in February 1978.