Sustaining Air - The Life of Larry Eigner

The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

About the author

Jennifer Bartlett is the author of four books of poetry. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen, she coedited Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Bartlett's poetry, nonfiction, and curatorial work has appeared in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Typo, and many other places. With George Hart, she edited Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner.

Summary

The poet Larry Eigner (1927-1996) was a key figure in New American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School and San Francisco Renaissance, and a major influence on the Language poets. Bartlett’s biography covers every significant phase of Eigner’s life, providing a deeply insightful account of an utterly distinctive voice.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Bartlett, Jennifer/ Hart Bartlett
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9780817360818
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6081-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries