Kat's review
My Life
by Lyn Hejinian
Kat's review
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Kat's review
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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 not likely to pick up the book again anytime soon because it seems so formidable and intellectual. I'd be interested to hear what other people got out of it, other than the fact that she counted sentences and chapters, measuring them out so precisely.
