-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Herb Levy Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:21 AM
Hejinian's "My Life" IS really really great. I know she was writing more into the 90s and I wish the latest edition had included some of this material. The second edition, from Sun & Moon, added 8 or nine sections and, because of the work's formal structure, 8 or 9 sentences to each of the previously published sections, but the most recent edition is, unfortunately, just a reprint of that text with no further additions.
Something like, she was 36 when the book first came out, and then added more sentences (and more poems) when she turned 45, right?
Yeah, I'd recommend that book to any one on the Zorn list for whom the concept of a "non-narrative text" isn't a turn-off.
So who else would you recommend, along the same lines? Later, Ben http://www.thewilyfilipino.com