Lyn Hejinian

Sep 4, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Lyn Hejinian |J.w. McCormack |Monica Byrne |Siddhartha Deb

Time past tumult-fodder getting wet by the ton plummets up the sky dispersing wild syllables an anarchy of storming signs into systems that can’t be understood for a simple reason that everything is participating loftily or low invading the public sphere with swaggering plasticity of wind swooping in like an eagle from the stratosphere and its buffeting thin soup and chardonnay brought out and down to confessional exaltations and propitious gossip and skeptical advancements over the situated...

Jul 7, 2023 | newspub.live | Lyn Hejinian

The hunter heard the helicopter coming. He grabbed his AK-47, he said, and jumped behind a tree. He was on an illegal elephant hunt with a group of men inside North Luangwa National Park in the southern African nation of Zambia. Smoke rose from the butchered meat that lay grilling on wooden racks. They had been spotted.

Jul 6, 2023 | nytimes.com | Anne Boyer |Lyn Hejinian

Magazine|Poem: Time of Tyranny, 49https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/magazine/poem-time-of-tyranny-49.htmlBy Lyn HejinianSelected by Anne BoyerJuly 6, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETLyn Hejinian’s poem has the sonnet’s traditional 14 lines and even features the sonnet’s coupletlike resolution, but the length of its lines exceeds tradition, nearly reaching to the very edges of line itself. It borrows prose’s linear momentum but refuses the carelessness of prose’s wraparound ends.