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Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner

Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner

Bartlett, Jennifer
Hart, George

Paperback

Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics

Biographies GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0817360816
ISBN13: 9780817360818
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

The poet Larry Eigner (1927-1996) was a key figure in New American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School and San Francisco Renaissance, and a major influence on the Language poets. Eigner also had cerebral palsy as the result of an accident at birth. It is fortuitous that the poet lived his life in two locations vibrant in both poetics and disability activism. Except for brief periods attending camp and school, he lived with his parents in Swampscott, Massachusetts, until the age of 51. Later, he moved to Berkeley, California, at the height of the disability rights movement. In the 1950s, Eigner attended Camp Jened, which later became famous in the film Crip Camp.

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