Lyn Hejinian: Aesthetic Activism and the Poetics of Protest

De Modern & Contemporary Literature Research Group van de Universiteit Utrecht verwelkomt de Amerikaanse dichter, vertaler en wetenschapper Lyn Hejinian voor een seminar over hedendaagse poëtica. Zij zal spreken over “Aesthetic Activism and the Poetics of Protest”.
Engels gesproken.

Locatie: Academiegebouw, zaal 1636

Location: Academiegebouw, room 1636

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The Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Group at Utrecht University welcomes North American poet, translator and scholar Lyn Hejinian. Hejinian is a foundational figure of Language poetry and of contemporary, feminist experimental writing; her most recent book, Positions of the Sun, was published this year. She is the John F Hotchkis Professor of English at UC Berkeley. Hejinian will be speaking on “Aesthetic Activism and the Poetics of Protest”.

According to the Poetry Foundation: “[Hejinian’s] poetry is characterized by an unusual lyricism and descriptive engagement with the everyday. She is the author of many poetry collections, including My Life and My Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn, 2012), The Fatalist (Omnidawn, 2003), and her landmark work My Life (Burning Deck, 1980)… Although Language writing tends to be anti-confessional and antirealist, Hejinian’s work does not reject these modes. Her long ‘novels’ My Life (2002) and Oxata (1991) unabashedly draw on her own experiences and are in some ways recognizably autobiographical. Rather, Hejinian’s work insists that alternative means of expression are necessary to truly represent the confessional or the real. Her work, repeatedly concerned with biography or autobiography, explores the relationship between alternative writing practices and the subjectivity that these genres often obscure.”