The Guard

by Lyn Hejinian

Genres: Poetry

19 pages, Chapbook

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000).

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Reviews

[Holly Raymond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hejinian at her radical best.

[joel · Rating 5 out of 5]

rip lyn

Some things slip through the mesh
and others go rotten. Nothing
distresses me exactly.
I sleep with self-styled procrastination.
Whose next day I don't know personally.