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Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, teacher, and translator. Her recent books are The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive, both co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten, have just been published by Wesleyan University Press.
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