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Lola the Interpreter

Lola the Interpreter

Hejinian, Lyn

Hardcover

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0819501786
ISBN13: 9780819501783
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.39 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian's Lola the Interpreter is a prose poem in which an 'I' and a series of quasi-characters (including Lola) interpret one another, their quotidian lives, and the terms, categories, and presuppositions that allow fragments of experience to be extracted from the flux of perception and framed as objects of analysis. This work stands as a culmination of Hejinian's lifelong exploration of thought's infrastructure, threading through her oeuvre from A Thought is the Bride of What Thinking to My Life and A Border Comedy, to this, her last book. What perhaps marks Lola as a work of late style, of new experimentalism even at the twilight of Hejinian's life, is the extent to which the interpretation that at first seems to be generated out of discrete events transcends its ostensible occasion and becomes philosophy more broadly, a philosophy poised between a necessary skepticism toward the given or imposed and a life-affirming commitment to the emergent possibilities within the ever-shifting and uncertain domain of daily existence.

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