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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to make an evaluation of this book. Perhaps the way to approach it, at least right now, is through a simple list of pros and cons:<br/><br/>PRO:<br/>• Unique<br/>• Evocative<br/>• Poetically charged<br/>• Unsettling<br/><br/>CON:<br/>• Impenetrable<br/>• Self-abs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73071886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was in a class where this book got seriously abused by a misogynist canon-pusher who shall remain nameless. Sorry, venting. I enjoyed the, how shall I say, open weave of this book and thought its repetitions elegant, modern and endearingly sentimental.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Only fragments are accurate.&quot;<br/><br/>Like a stereoscope of images upon images, creating scenes strange with dissonance, or scenes at ease with coming home.<br/><br/>What else could I possibly say?<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting, very heady read. I read it quickly for school and dashed off a response paper, so I didn't get a lot out of it. There are many beautiful images and sentence fragments but I didn't get a sense of coherence from the work as a whole. I respect Hejinian's craft, but at the same time, I'm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3405864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you ever get the chance (and the time), this really should be read in conjunction with the original... The ways in which additions (to earlier sections) and the growth (of the whole) take place are breathtaking.  <em>My Life in the Nineties</em>, while lovely in its own right, is an unfortunate departure ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9756433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the sheer imagistic and synesthetic beauty of the first sentence, <br/><br/>&quot;A moment yellow, just as four years later, when my father returned home from the war, the moment of greeting him, as he stood at the bottom of the stairs, younger, thinner than when he had left, was purple--th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19710890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  It was alot of fun to re-read it.  Hejinian's attention to sentences, her use of repetition, piling of sentences without heavy accumulation--all of it is very nice.  As she writes, &quot;A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece.&quot;  That is what it is like to read this bo...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this little booklet is so brilliant that i feel the intense urge to underline everything...or place a remarkable indication dot on the ends of each beginning and end...as i do for only certain portions of other works i read.  these are the ways in which i dream of writing...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This peice of art inspires and prompts me to write. It is of Hejinian's poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. She reveals an artist at work, and I feel one-of-the-same. ONE OF MY FAVES!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hejinian is a master poet. You must go int this collection with zero expectations, she is a Language Poet and writes  emphasizing the readers role in interpreting and bringing meaning to what she has written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you don't like postmodernism, you'll be annoyed. if you do like postmodernism, you'll fall in love. <br/><br/>this little, litte, little book is amazing, but it is not for the faint of heart or mind. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my life is a fantastic foray into language poetry. Sometimes I read pages at a time while at other times a sentence is all I need.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very influential to my own writing.  I am grateful to have read it and to have it on my shelf.]]></body>
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