My Life and My Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
“One major source of joy in reading My Life comes from the collision of various sentences and subjects. In that very collision—vaguely cubist or collagist—lies the humor and pleasure of this text, which is a kind of super-collider, a site for high-energy linguistic experimentation.”—Hank Lazer, Archive Newsletter“My Life has so many good lines in it, it’s like a trot, it makes you want to steal from it or perhaps annotate it and make the compliment (or complement) of imitating it.”—Bernadette Mayer, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E“Hejinian has for some time been noted for her love of rich textual surface effects, but never before has she found a method of construction so suited to its development.”—Ron Silliman, San Francisco Review of Books